Fern - spore-feeder interaction in temperate forests in Japan: Sporing phenology and spore-feeding insect community

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 594-604

  Sawamura, Megumi ^a   Kawakita, Atsushi ^a   Kato, Makoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fern; Japan; Moth; Spore feeder; Sporing phenology; Stathmopodidae; temperate forest.

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GROWTH; MOTH; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDATION; SPORULATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; VASCULAR PLANT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; STATHMOPODIDAE;

EID: 63449138414     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800256     Document Type: Article

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