Data/hora: 12/06/2024 01:14:00

Provedor de dados: 	49	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Mites and leaf domatia: no evidence of mutualism in Coffea arabica plants	
Autores: 	Romero,Gustavo Quevedo; Daud,Rodrigo Damasco; Salomão,Adriana Trevizoli; Martins,Luiz Fernando; Feres,Reinaldo José Fazzio; Benson,Woodruff Whitman.	
Data: 	2011-03-01	
Ano: 	2011	
Palavras-chave: 	Mite-plant interactions; Mite community; Space limitation; Atlantic Rain Forest; Mutualism breakdown.	
Resumo: 	We conducted experiments by blocking off pit-like domatia from old and new leaves of Coffea arabica L., using tiny resin drops, to investigate the role of domatia on i) mite abundance at the community level and on ii) leaf damages. More than 77% of the mites collected were predators, whereas 19 and 3.3% were omnivores and phytophages, respectively. Domatia blockage treatment had no influence either on mite abundances or leaf damages. However, predatory and omnivorous mites were more abundant on new than on the old leaves; phytophagous mites occurred at very low density and occupied only plants having open domatia. The absence of mutualism between mites and C. arabica probably occurred because the entrances of domatia were too small and did not enable the entry of fitoseid predators in these structures.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032011000100002	
Editor: 	Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1676-06032011000100002	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Biota Neotropica  v.11 n.1 2011	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess