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Spatial patterns of social spider colonies in Namibia reflect habitat features and dispersal modes

Klaus BirkhoferDepartment of Biology, Lund University, Lund, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Tharina BirdDepartment of Life Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Trine BildeDepartment of Bioscience – Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Yael LubinMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel
Pages 157-163 | Published online: 25 Jul 2014

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