Diversity of galling arthropods and host plants in a subtropical forest of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil

Neotropical Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 616-624

  Dalbem, Ricardo V ^a   Mendonça Jr , Milton De S ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Lab Ecologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Morphotype; Sampler; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT; SEASON; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BRAZIL; PLANTS; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33845613440     PISSN: 1519566X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1519-566X2006000500007     Document Type: Article

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