Individual plants can provide space for various herbivore communities, and multiple herbivores often colonize different parts of the same plant. Plants can therefore play an important role in shaping community composition in ecosystems by mediating interactions among herbivore. Plant-mediated interactions among different folivores or between above-and below-ground herbivores are relatively well understood. However, although important for structural support and nutritional transport, the stem is largely unknown in how it responds to stem-feeding herbivores, or whether leaf- and stem-responses to herbivore attack are integrated. Interestingly, I found that JA signaling is also important for resistance to the stem herbivore, and, interestingly, that N. attenuata induced lignin and chlorogenic acid in stems in the face of stem herbivore attack. I also further found that plant inducible defenses in the pith and in the leaf are not systemically induced other tissues, but systemic induction of JA signaling was asymmetric between the stem and the leaf. I conclude that tissue-localized defense responses allow tissue-specialized herbivores to share the same host and occupy different chemical defense niches in the same hostplant.

Whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) are major pests on greenhouse crops including sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) in South Korea. To manage this pest complex effectively, it is fundamental to understand population dynamics and spatial distributions of the pests. In this study, we conducted visual counting and used yellow sticky traps to monitor whitefly and thrips populations in sweet pepper greenhouse (6 × 28 m). The survey was conducted every two weeks over two months. A total of 84 traps were set up at 20cm from the plant top canopy and spaced 1m apart from each other. Leaves were selected randomly from the middle plant canopy for visual counting at the same sampling locations. The trap data indicate that the numbers of whiteflies and thrips increased from 5.50 ± 0.34 to 168.51 ± 14.95 and from 52.40 ± 1.67 to 158.42 ± 7.44 (mean ± SE) per trap, respectively, over the two-month observation period. In general, the spatial distributions of these pests aggregated near the greenhouse entrance with significant positive correlation between the densities of the two species (r = 0.74, P = 0.02). However, the results of visual counting were completely different; either species was rarely found on leaves, even when the trap catches were relatively high at the same locations. That is, there was no correlation between visual counting and sticky trap data sets. The current study will serve as a fundamental step to develop reliable and effective management programs for greenhouse sweet pepper.

강원도 인제군에 위치한 방태천의 하중주에 성립된 식 생과 하상물질을 지도화한 후 양자를 비교하여 식생의 성 립 배경을 밝혔다. 전체적인 식피율은 하중주의 내부에서 높고 가장자리에서 낮은 경향이었다. 선단부(상류 방향) 와 후미(하류 방향)를 비교하면, 전자보다 후자에서 식피 율이 높은 경향이었다. 교목은 유수에 의한 교란의 영향 이 적은 하중주의 후미에 제한적으로 분포하였고, 아교목 역시 교란의 영향이 적은 하중주의 중앙 이하에 분포하 였다. 관목은 하중주의 종단면에 따른 차이는 적었지만 횡단상으로는 차이를 보여 부수로가 흐르는 하중주의 우 측(좌안)보다 주수로가 흐르는 좌측(우안)에 주로 분포 하였다. 초본류의 경우는 하중주의 위치에 따른 차이 없이 전체적으로 고르게 분포하였다. 수고분포는 하류부근 에서 높이가 높고 상류로 갈수록 낮아지는 경향이었다. 이러한 식생과 하상물질의 분포로 보아 하중주는 상류방 향으로 새로 형성되는 것으로 평가되었다. 하중주에서 수 집된 식생자료에 기초하여 식분을 서열화한 결과, 식분의 배열은 I축 상의 오른쪽에서 왼쪽으로 이동함에 따라 1 년생 초본식생, 다년생초본, 관목 그리고 교목의 순서로 나타나 식생의 발달단계에 따라 분포하는 경향이었다. 식 물군락 별 종 순위-우점도 곡선에서 종 풍부도는 소나무 군락, 달뿌리풀군락, 갯버들군락, 물푸레나무군락, 1년생 식물 우점군락 및 귀룽나무군락 순으로 높게 나타났다. 이상의 결과에서 보여지듯이 방태천은 하천의 상류에 해 당하여 저질의 입자가 컸다. 따라서 그들은 굴러서 이동 하므로 하중주는 주로 상류 방향으로 새로 형성되었다. 하중주의 후미에서 선단부를 향해 교목림지, 관목림지 및 초지의 순서로 배열된 식생의 공간배열이 하중주의 형성 과정을 반영하였다. 그러나 하중주는 역동적인 공간으로 서 유수에 의한 교란은 물론 부유사에 의한 교란도 빈번 하게 받고 있다. 그러한 교란이 서식처 다양성을 이끌어 내고, 궁극적으로 높은 생물다양성을 가져왔다.

Due to unprecedented economic development and human aggregation since the end of 20th century, disturbances are ubiquitous across different fields, conservation, pest management, biodiversity, agriculture/forestry, fishery, and epidemics. Disturbing agents are spatially and temporally expanding and regarded difficult to analyze due to complexity residing in the totality of environment-organism relationships. Some basic mathematical models were reviewed in expressing temporal abundance and spatial distribution of populations. Ecological modelling procedure was outlined, and a few case studies were presented in pest population dispersal. Efficiency of spatial models was further illustrated in prediction and provision of management policies. Other related models such as individual based models and cellular automata were discussed additionally in expressing spatial and temporal dynamics in individual and population levels.

A Korean endemic and evergreen small tree ' Dendropanax morbifera LEV.(Araliaceae)' is a component of evergreen forest and mainly idstributein sourthern region and islands in Korea. A local population of D. morbifera which is located between evergreen and deciduous forest within 50m x 50m quadrate was investigated to ascertain the change of population structure, emergence and growth dynamics of seedlings and saplings, and pattern of spatial distribution by the temproal and spatial expansion of population . The result of analysis of population structure by Importnace Value(IV), evergreen forest showed a high species diversity of evergreen tree species such as Cinnamomum japonicum, Machilus japonica, Neolitsea serica, Daphniphyllum macropodum, Ligustrum japonicum, and etc, in middle and under story than in upper story where Camelia japonica and Quercus acuta were dominant. And in conterminous deciduous fores, the major component of evergreen forest in this region, Camellia japonica, Quercus acuta, evergreen tree of Lauraceae and etc. were abundant in only under story. IV of D. morbifera differed from among three story. In comparative analysis of emergence and growth dynamics of D. morbifera seedlings and saplings between evergreen and deciduous forest, emergece and density of seedlings were significantly greater in evergreen than in deciduous forest, and growth of height and basal diameter of seedlings and saplings were slightly larger in evergreen than in deciduous forest. The spatial distribution patterns by Moristia's index mapping of indivuduals using a lattice method of XY axis within this population showed that seedlings(age up to 2 years) and saplings (age〉2 years and height〈1m) both evergreen and deciduous forest were more or less aggregated apart from mature trees, and thougth intermediate trees(height〉1m and dbh〈10cm) had a aggregated distribution pattern, mature trees(dbh〉10cm were uniform. In conclusion , the expansion of D. morbfera population from evergreen to deciduous forest accompanied with a mumber of evergreen woody species, and also, emergence and recruitment, and growth of seedlings were greatly influenced moisture and canopy by around community structure.