Sclerophylly, tannins and herbivorous insects associated with Copaifera lagsdorffii desf. (Fabaceae:Caesalpinioideae) in a cerrado-caatinga transition, Brazil;Escleroflia, taninos e insetos herbívoros associados a Copaifera lagsdorffii Desf. (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) em área de transiç;ão cerrado-caatinga no Brasil

Ecologia Austral

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-206

  Silva, Jhonathan O ^a   Jesus, Fabiene M ^a   Fagundes, Marcílio ^a   Fernandes, G Wilson ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTES CLAROS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemical defenses; Hygrothermal stress; Specific leaf mass

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAATINGA; CERRADO; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DRY FOREST; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LEAFMINER; LEGUME; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TANNIN;

BRAZIL;

CAESALPINIOIDEAE; COPAIFERA; COPAIFERA LANGSDORFFII; FABACEAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 76749086974     PISSN: 03275477     EISSN: 1667782X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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