Susan Riechert
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Susan Elise Riechert is an American behavioral ecologist known for her research in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory and the behavior of spiders. She is also known for her "biology in a box" teaching materials, used by hundreds of thousands of elementary and secondary school students in Tennessee.
Susan Riechert's Published Works
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Published Works
- Spiders as Biological Control Agents (1984) (616)
- Prey Control by an Assemblage of Generalist Predators: Spiders in Garden Test Systems (1990) (399)
- Thermal Balance and Prey Availability: Bases for a Model Relating Web‐Site Characteristics to Spider Reproductive Success (1975) (268)
- A test for correlations among fitness-linked behavioural traits in the spider Agelenopsis aperta (Araneae, Agelenidae) (1993) (257)
- How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group (2011) (184)
- Behavioural syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus (2008) (169)
- The Consequences of Being Territorial: Spiders, a Case Study (1981) (156)
- Games spiders play: Behavioral variability in territorial disputes (1978) (155)
- Test for predation effects of single versus multiple species of generalist predators: spiders and their insect prey (1997) (152)
- Levels of predation and genetically based anti-predator behaviour in the spider, Agelenopsis aperta (1990) (146)
- Spider Colonization of Agroecosystems: Mode and Source (1990) (131)
- Thoughts on the Ecological Significance of Spiders (1974) (117)
- Game Theory in the Ecological Context (1983) (116)
- THE HOWS AND WHYS OF SUCCESSFUL PEST SUPPRESSION BY SPIDERS: INSIGHTS FROM CASE STUDIES (1999) (115)
- A conflicting-tendency model of spider agonistic behaviour: Hybrid-pure population line comparisons (1984) (98)
- The Energetic Costs of Fighting (1988) (96)
- An airborne female pheromone associated with male attraction and courtship in a desert spider (2001) (94)
- Superfluous killing in spiders: a consequence of adaptation to food-limited environments? (2001) (94)
- Web-site selection in the desert spider Agelenopsis aperta (1976) (84)
- Investigation of potential gene flow limitation of behavioral adaptation in an aridlands spider (1993) (82)
- Chapter 10 Spider Foraging: Behavioral Responses to Prey (1982) (81)
- Investigation of potential male mate choice in a monogamous spider (1995) (80)
- Sex matters: sexually dimorphic fitness consequences of a behavioural syndrome (2009) (79)
- Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within‐population trait correlations (2010) (78)
- Fostering model explains variation in levels of sociality in a spider system (2007) (78)
- Games spiders play. III: Cues underlying context-associated changes in agonistic behaviour (1984) (76)
- Molecular evidence for Pleistocene glacial cycles driving diversification of a North American desert spider, Agelenopsis aperta (2004) (74)
- The Ecology of the Cooperative Spider Agelena consociata in Equatorial Africa (Araneae, Agelenidae) (1986) (72)
- Frequency-Dependent Success of Cheaters During Foraging Bouts Might Limit Their Spread within Colonies of a Socially Polymorphic Spider (2009) (70)
- PATTERNS OF RESOURCE USE AND TESTS FOR COMPETITIVE RELEASE IN A SPIDER COMMUNITY (1983) (69)
- DISPERSAL AND POPULATION‐GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE COOPERATIVE SPIDER, AGELENA CONSOCIATA, IN WEST AFRICAN RAINFOREST (1988) (68)
- Phenotypic variation in the social behaviour of the spider Anelosimus studiosus along a latitudinal gradient (2008) (64)
- Genetically-based variation between two spider populations in foraging behavior (1989) (61)
- Why Do Some Spiders Cooperate? Agelena consociata, a Case Study (1985) (57)
- Payoffs and strategies in territorial contests: ESS analyses of two ecotypes of the spiderAgelenopsis aperta (1988) (57)
- Genetic analyses of two behavioural traits linked to individual fitness in the desert spider Agelenopsis aperta (1989) (55)
- Prey abundance vs diet breadth in a spider test system (1991) (51)
- The Pattern of Local Web Distribution in a Desert Spider: Mechanisms and Seasonal Variation (1974) (50)
- The ecological consequences of temperament in spiders (2012) (50)
- Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider (2010) (49)
- INITIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRUCTURE OF SPIDER COMMUNITIES (1977) (47)
- ANALYSIS OF COURTSHIP SUCCESS IN THE FUNNEL-WEB SPIDER AGELENOPSIS APERTA (2000) (47)
- Male mating preference is associated with risk of pre-copulatory cannibalism in a socially polymorphic spider (2009) (47)
- Model and Field Test of Prey Control Effects by Spider Assemblages (1994) (46)
- Decisions in Multiple Goal Contexts: Habitat Selection of the Spider, Agelenopsis aperta (Gertsch) (1985) (46)
- The Evolution of Behavioral Phenotypes: Lessons Learned from Divergent Spider Populations (1993) (43)
- Mating system and mating success of the desert spider Agelenopsis aperta (1995) (43)
- Patterns of reproductive success associated with social structure and microclimate in a spider system (2008) (42)
- Iterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous (2012) (41)
- Male induction of female quiescence/catalepsis during courtship in the spider, Agelenopsis aperta (2005) (41)
- Chapter 8 Spider Interaction Strategies: Communication vs. Coercion (1982) (40)
- Differences in environmental enrichment generate contrasting behavioural syndromes in a basal spider lineage (2014) (39)
- Spider effects on prey: tests for superfluous killing in five web-builders (1998) (39)
- Patterns of Spider Distribution (Agelenopsis aperta (Gertsch)) in Desert Grassland and Recent Lava Bed Habitats, South-Central New Mexico (1973) (36)
- Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes (2011) (35)
- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE SOCIAL SPIDER ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE) AND FOREIGN SPIDERS THAT FREQUENT ITS NESTS (2007) (34)
- DO FEMALE SPIDERS SELECT HEAVIER MALES FOR THE GENES FOR BEHAVIORAL AGGRESSIVENESS THEY OFFER THEIR OFFSPRING? (2003) (33)
- Non‐Conceptive Sexual Behavior in Spiders: A Form of Play Associated with Body Condition, Personality Type, and Male Intrasexual Selection (2012) (32)
- The spatial and temporal partitioning of a desert spider community, with descriptions of new species. American Museum novitates ; no. 2604 (1976) (32)
- Spider Fights: A Test of Evolutionary Game Theory (1986) (31)
- THE POTENTIAL OF SPIDERS TO EXHIBIT STABLE EQUILIBRIUM POINT CONTROL OF PREY: TESTS OF TWO CRITERIA (1999) (31)
- Reproductive consequences of male body mass and aggressiveness depend on females’ behavioral types (2011) (30)
- Spiders as Representative ‘Sit‐and‐wait’ Predators (2009) (28)
- Relatedness and genetic structure in a socially polymorphic population of the spider Anelosimus studiosus (2010) (26)
- Speciation history of the North American funnel web spiders, Agelenopsis (Araneae: Agelenidae): phylogenetic inferences at the population-species interface. (2005) (25)
- High gene flow levels lead to gamete wastage in a desert spider system. (2001) (25)
- High gene flow levels lead to gamete wastage in a desert spider system (2004) (25)
- Short-Term Effects of Hunger Conditioning on Spider Behavior, Predation, and Gain of Weight (1991) (23)
- Vegetation Change Along an Altitudinal Gradient, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos (1975) (18)
- From Skeletons to Bridges & Other STEM Enrichment Exercises for High School Biology (2010) (17)
- Intense group selection selects for ideal group compositions, but selection within groups maintains them (2017) (16)
- Between Population Variation in Spider Territorial Behavior: Hybrid-Pure Population Line Comparisons (1986) (12)
- Nonconceptive sexual experience diminishes individuals’ latency to mate and increases maternal investment (2011) (11)
- A test for phylogenetic constraints on behavioral adaptation in a spider system (1993) (10)
- Tests for sex differences in fitness-linked traits in the spiderAgelenopsis aperta (Araneae: Agelenidae) (1994) (9)
- A Role-Playing Exercise that Demonstrates the Process of Evolution by Natural Selection: Caching Squirrels in a World of Pilferers (2011) (9)
- Maynard Smith & Parker's (1976) rule book for animal contests, mostly (2013) (7)
- The ontogeny of personality traits in the desert funnel‐web spider, Agelenopsis lisa (Araneae: Agelenidae) (2017) (6)
- Theoretical comparisons of individual success between phenotypically pure and mixed generalist predator populations (1995) (6)
- Personality shifts are inconsistent across two rapid range expansions of a non-native spider (2021) (5)
- The State of Arachnid Systematics (1985) (4)
- A New Time-Sort Pitfall Trap (1973) (2)
- Retraction (2014) (1)
- Notable UT Woman Award (2014) (2014) (0)
- In the spider nursery: indifference, cooperation or antagonism? (2017) (0)
- Alumni Public Service Award (2008) (2008) (0)
- Nature's Designs Applied to Technology (2015) (0)
- Macebearer Recipient (2011) (2011) (0)
- Connecting the social and spatial behaviors of a territorial species (Anolis carolinensis) (2022) (0)
- Bridging the Gap : Connecting Biology and Engineering in the High School Curriculum (2010) (0)
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