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| Lara,Daniela P.; Oliveira,Lázaro A.; Azevedo,Islaine F. P.; Xavier,Márcia F.; Silveira,Fernando A. O.; Carneiro,Marco Antonio Alves; Fernandes,G. Wilson. |
| The plant architecture hypothesis predicts that variation in host plant architecture influences insect herbivore community structure, dynamics and performance. In this study we evaluated the effects of Macairea radula (Melastomataceae) architecture on the abundance of galls induced by a moth (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Plant architecture and gall abundance were directly recorded on 58 arbitrarily chosen M. radula host plants in the rainy season of 2006 in an area of Cerrado vegetation, southeastern Brazil. Plant height, dry biomass, number of branches, number of shoots and leaf abundance were used as predicting variables of gall abundance and larval survival. Gall abundance correlated positively with host plant biomass and branch number. Otherwise, no... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cerrado; Insect galls; Plant size; Structural complexity. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262008000100014 |
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