Biodiversity of galling insects: Historical, community and habitat effects in four neotropical savannas

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-98

  Gonçalves Alvim, Silmary J ^a   Fernandes, G Wilson ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

'Cerrado'; Biodiversity; Environmental stress; Galling insect; Insect plant interactions; Savanna

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GALL INSECT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAVANNA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0035142170     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016602213305     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. O cerrado como vegetação oligotrófica
2. Considerações sobre as causas do xeromorfismo foliar
3. As plantas lenhosas dos campos cerrados como flora adaptadas às deficiências minerais do solo
4. Papel do fator nutricional na economia d'água de plantas do cerrado
5. Insect induced galls on Australian vegetation
6. Gall-forming insect diversity is linked to soil fertility via host plant taxon
7. A diversidade padronizada
8. The nature of nutrient limitation in plant communities
9. The effect of stand size and vegetational background on the colonization of cruciferous plants by herbivorous insects
10. Host selection and host finding in the egg-laying female Cidaria albulata L. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
11. The cerrado vegetation of Brazil
12. Vegetação de cerrado
13. Plant apparency and the diversity of phytophagous insects
14. Hypersensitivity: A neglected plant resistance mechanism against insect herbivores
15. Plant familiy size and age effects on insular gall-forming species richness
16. Biogeographical gradients in galling species richness: Tests of hypotheses
17. Comparisons of tropical and temperate galling species richness: The roles of enviromental harshness and plant nutrient status
18. The adaptive significance of insects gall distribution: Survivorship of species in xeric and mesic habitats
19. The geography of galling insects and the mechanisms that result in patterns
20. Distribuição de insetos galhadores entre habitats e seu possível uso como bioindicadores
21. Galling insects on neotropical species of Baccharis (Asteraceae)
22. Padrões de riqueza de insetos em gradientes altitudinais na Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais
23. Ecologia do cerrado
24. Distinguishing intrapopulational categories of plants by their insect fauna: Galls on rabbitbrush
25. Oligotrofismo e alumínio no cerrado
26. Differential intensities of gall insect infestation among host plant size classes: Outbreak frequency estimation model
27. The highest diversity of galling insects: Serra do cipó, Brazil
28. Plant architecture and the diversity of phytophagous insects
29. Effects of plant type, size of geographical range and taxonomic isolation on number of insects associated with British plants
30. Patterns of diversity for the insect herbivores on Braken
31. Insect species richness of the British Rosaceae: The importance of host range, plant architecture, age of establishment, taxonomic isolation and species-area relationships
32. The role of drought stress in provoking outbreaks of phytophagous insects
33. Sclerophylly and oligotrophic environments: Relationship between leaf structure, mineral nutrient content, and drought resistance in tropical rain forests of the upper Rio Negro region
34. Herbivore exploitation of a fugitive plant species: Local survival and extinction of the cinnabar moth and ragworth in a heterogenous environment
35. Flora vascular do cerrado
36. Diversity and pattern in plants and insects
37. Hypotheses on the adaptive nature of galls
38. Global patterns in local number of insect galling species
39. Effect of host plant density on population of a specialized seed sucking bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus
40. The influence of patch size on a guild of sap-feeding insects that inhabit the salt marsh grass Spartina patens
41. Evolution of plant chemical defense against herbivores
42. Toward a general theory of plant antiherbivore chemistry
43. Patterns in gall development
44. Organization of a plant-arthropod association in simple and diverse habitats: The fauna of colards (Brassica oleracea)
45. Diversity and eveness of Hemiptera communities on naturally derelict land in NW England
46. Considerações taxonômicas e ecológicas sobre a flora dos "campos rupestres" da Serra dos Carajás
47. Relações entre parâmetro do solo e da vegetação de cerrado na Estação Florestal de Experimentação de Paraobepa-MG
48. Estudos botânicos na Área do Projeto Ferro Carajás, Serra Norte. I-Aspectos ecológicos e vegetacionais dos campos rupestres
49. Aspectos ecológicos da vegetação rupestre da Serra do Carajás
50. Estudos botânicos: Histórico, atualidade e perspectivas
51. Response of a host-specific herbivore to resource density, relative abundance and phenology
52. The abundance of Hawaiian trees and the number of their associated insect species
53. The number of species of insect associated with various trees
54. The relationships of plant and insect diversity in succesion
55. Species richness of plant parasites and growth form of their hosts
56. The influence of vegetational diversity on the population ecology of a specialized herbivore, Phyllotreta cruciferae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
57. Plant water stress and gall formation (Cecidomyiidae: Asphondylia spp.) on creosote bush
58. An index to measure weather-induced stress of trees associated with outbreaks of psyllids in Australia
59. Weather, food and plagues of locusts
60. The abundance of invertebrate herbivores in relation to the availability of nitrogen in stressed food plants
61. Predation on Scheelea palm seeds by bruchid beetles: Seed density and distance from the parent palm
62. Gall-insect richness in African Fynbos and Karoo vegetation: The importance of plant species richness
63. Insect species richness tracking plant species richness in a diverse flora: Gall-insects in the Cape floristic region, South Africa