Spore-feeding: A new, regionally vacant niche for bracken herbivores

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 475-478

  Srivastava, Diane S ^a,c   Lawton, John H ^a   Robinson, Gaden S ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bracken; Cameroon; Insect herbivores; Pteridium aquilinum; Saturation; Spores; Vacant niche

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; INSECTA; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 0030689842     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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