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Kleber Del-Claro
Researcher at Federal University of Uberlandia
Publications - 208
Citations - 4877
Kleber Del-Claro is an academic researcher from Federal University of Uberlandia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nectar & Mutualism (biology). The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 188 publications receiving 4116 citations. Previous affiliations of Kleber Del-Claro include University of São Paulo & State University of Campinas.
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Conditional outcomes in a neotropical treehopper-ant association: temporal and species-specific variation in ant protection and homopteran fecundity.
TL;DR: This is the first study to simultaneously demonstrate conditionality in ant-derived benefits related to both protection and fecundity in an ant-tended Membracidae, and the first to show the combined action of these effects in the same system.
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Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness
Jonas Byk,Kleber Del-Claro +1 more
TL;DR: The ant C. pusillus is the first case in which firm evidence that EFN improves colony growth and development is provided, corroborating more than 100 years of experimental evidence of benefits to plants in these widespread relationships.
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Effect of herbivore deterrence by ants on the fruit set of an extrafloral nectary plant, Qualea multiflora (Vochysiaceae)
TL;DR: There are many definitions of EFNs, but those that define EFNs as nectaries that are not involved in pollination (e.g. Fiala & Maschwitz 1991) could be the most simple and correct- EFNs have been recorded from more than 93 angiosperm families (Elias 1983, Koptur 1992) in at least 2200 species (Keeler 1989) as discussed by the authors.
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Ant‐Homoptera Interactions in a Neotropical Savanna: The Honeydew‐Producing Treehopper, Guayaquila xiphias (Membracidae), and its Associated Ant Fauna on Didymopanax vinosum (Araliaceae)1
TL;DR: Investigation of the ant fauna associated with the Neotropical treehopper, Guayaquila xiphias, on shrubs of Didymopanax vinosum in the cerrado (savanna) of SE Brazil finds 21 ant species harvesting honeydew at G. xiphia aggregations, far greater than that reported for any other ant‐homopteran system.
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Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies
Kleber Del-Claro,Victor Rico-Gray,Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi,Estevão Alves-Silva,Roberth Fagundes,Denise Lange,Wesley Dáttilo,Andrea Andrade Vilela,Armando Aguirre,Dulce Rodríguez-Morales +9 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that ant–EFN bearing plant interactions serve an excellent and unique model to test the “Geographic Mosaic Theory” of coevolution providing a more clear view of how evolution has structured these plant–animal ecological networks.