Insect folivory in Didymopanax vinosum (Apiaceae) in a vegetation mosaic of Brazilian cerrado.
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...…ambientes florestais tem sido observada em diversos estudos (Neves et al. 2010; Silva et al. 2009; Varanda & Pais 2006), e como consequência o nível de sombreamento tem sido considerado um bom parâmetro determinar taxas de herbivoria (Peace & Grubb 1982; Dimarco et al. 2004; Varanda & Pais 2006)....
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...A maior herbivoria em ambientes florestais tem sido observada em diversos estudos (Neves et al. 2010; Silva et al. 2009; Varanda & Pais 2006), e como consequência o nível de sombreamento tem sido considerado um bom parâmetro determinar taxas de herbivoria (Peace & Grubb 1982; Dimarco et al. 2004;…...
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...Particularly in the Brazilian cerrado, herbivory surveys are restricted to only one species (e.g., Varanda and Pais 2006) or only a defense trait, such as presence of extra-floral nectaries to ant association (e.g., Oliveira 1997, Oliveira and Freitas 2004) or latex presence (e.g., Diniz et al.…...
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...Coleopterans are the major leaf-eaters (of 57% plant species) in tropical dry evergreen forest as also reported in many other tropical forests (Murali & Sukumar 1993, Varanda & Paise 2006)....
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...We determined the abundance and richness for each site, and two annual similarity indexes among sites: the Sorensen index (C S ) for qualitative, and the Morisita-Horn index (C mH ) for quantitative comparisons (Magurran, 1991)....
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...According to Coley et al. (1985), plant species in environments with low resource availability (such as cerrado) have been selected to have a high investment in quantitative defenses including tannins and lignins, which reduce the digestibility of the plant tissues....
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...…the importance of defensive compounds and nutritional quality in plant–herbivory interactions at the interspecific level (Feeny, 1975; Coley, 1983; Coley et al., 1985), we suggest that spatial variation in D. vinosum folivory among the sampled sites is not influenced by the plant traits that…...
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...Secondly, as stated by the resourceconcentration hypothesis (Root, 1973), there is a higher probability of herbivores finding, remaining on, and consequently becoming more abundant on hosts growing at a high density or abundance....
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...Larger plants provide two types of benefits for herbivores: higher apparency (Feeny, 1976; Karban, 1993), which renders Braz....
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...…emphasize the importance of defensive compounds and nutritional quality in plant–herbivory interactions at the interspecific level (Feeny, 1975; Coley, 1983; Coley et al., 1985), we suggest that spatial variation in D. vinosum folivory among the sampled sites is not influenced by the plant…...
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