Influence of Invertebrate Feeding on the Lichen Cladonia pocillum

Symbiosis

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-291

  Backor, Martin ^a,b   Dvorsky, Kenneth ^a   Fahselt, Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a fluorescence; Dehydrogenase activity; Fumarprotocetraric acid; Lichenivory; Pigment content; SEM

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATE; LICHEN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGAE; CLADONIA; CLADONIA POCILLUM; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0346270693     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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