@article{1479395,
      recid = {1479395},
      author = {Morse, Douglass H., },
      title = {Predator upon a Flower : Life History and Fitness in a  Crab Spider /},
      pages = {1 online resource (392 p.)},
      abstract = {In the crab spider, Misumena vatia, Douglass H. Morse and  his colleagues found an ideal species on which to test  basic questions associated with lifetime fitness. From the  moment a female crab spider selects a flower on which to  sit and wait for her prey, there unfolds a cascade of  lifetime fitness variables that determine her evolutionary  success. Did she choose a flower that attracts suitable  prey? Will she encounter a competitor or predator? Will she  survive long enough to breed, and will her offspring  contribute to the gene pool? Ecologists had previously  identified variables that shape populations, but lacked the  experimental data needed to make comprehensive tests of  individuals that made different foraging decisions. Morse  found that Misumena is particularly well suited to both  field study and laboratory experiments. Over the last 25  years, his simple yet elegant experiments have contributed  to our understanding of lifetime fitness and helped to  develop study techniques that can be applied to animals  with other, more complex, life histories. Predator upon a  Flower recounts these influential discoveries in a  gracefully crafted narrative that moves ever outward from  individuals to communities to ecosystems, and concludes by  suggesting directions for future research in spider  biology.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479395},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275409},
}