ecology behavior
ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... An interesting possibility would be an ecophysiological focus as the one employed by Price et al. (2004), seeking patterns linking diversity and the physiology of the organisms involved. The different proportions of host ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... To survey the diversity and abundance of Coleoptera associated to undisturbed cattle droppings, four undisturbed cattle dung pats naturally dropped in pastures and 5 cm of the soil imm[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... of exotic species. The presence of the exotic species could in fl uence the wild assemblages by decreasing evenness in hot periods. In the urban environments, H’ was related with an[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... The caatinga ecosystem presented the greatest richness of Frieseomelitta VSHFLHVQ FROOHFWHGRQÀRZHUVFHUWDLQO\ due to the ease of collection and to its representativity in areas such as[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... According to Carpenter (1993) and Carpenter & Marques (2001), the Vespidae family is composed by seven monophyletic subfamilies, being one yet extinct (Priorvespinae). The family includes solitary wasps ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... Termites play an important role in tropical ecosystems, acting as mediators in the process of decomposition of litter and in the transfer of materials of pedologic and organic origins, given their foraging habits and ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... Bees and plants utilized in this study. Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) are a group of mainly tropical, highly eusocial bees comprising about 400 species, distributed among more than 20 genera (Michener 2000). Bees ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... ABSTRACT - In this paper, we provide a checklist of chironomids living in freshwater sponges in the upper Paraná River (Brazil) and we call attention to the problem of complete substitu[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... On the fi rst day of the 2 nd instar ( fi rst instars stay in group and do not feed), nymphs were placed singly in 9 x 1.5 cm Petri dishes with moistened fi lter paper, and were fed[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... Insect migration is usually associated with decrease in fecundity, delay in reproductive activity (reproductive diapause), increase in longevity, and morphological alterations such a[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... Our main hypothesis was that, since both grasshopper species follow the converse to Bergmann’s rule owing to latitudinal and/or altitudinal variation in time available for growth and[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... We collected ants using sardine baits, subterranean traps and direct sampling at four habitats with different soil use (secundary forest, Acacia forestry, initial stage of succession[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... Species accumulation curves of the number ant species collected, in different plant physiognomies, using baits (bait), pitfall traps (pit), the Winkler extractor (Wink), or with the two[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... Rarefaction curves for the estimated richness of Coreoidea species obtained with beating tray method along Garcia and Yucumã trails, Parque Estadual do Turvo, Derrubadas, RS, Brazil..[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... the behavior and in some physiological and demographic characteristics of insect populations reared in the laboratory, such as birth, mortality, and fecundity rates (Leppla et ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Nidificação, mortalidade, parasitismo, Trypoxylon lactitarse , Auplopus militaris ABSTRACT - Temporal variation of solitary wasps and bees, nesting frequency, mortality[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... rearrangement behavior on the top of egg shells apparently compensates for the water loss of ...rearrangement behavior may or may not occur in the fi eld, depending on the RH ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... ABSTRACT - This is the fi rst record of winter eggs of the holocyclic monoeceous crapemyrtle aphid Tinocallis kahawaluokalani (Kirkaldy) on Lagerstroemia indica L., in Brazil.. The [r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... courtship behavior. After a stereotypical calling behavior, mating occurred with a peak of activity prior to the scotophase and mainly in the fi rst two days after adult emergence, which coincides with the ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... (2000) used a dry artificial diet for Nezara viridula (L.) rearing, and obtained low nymph mortality (ca. 30%); however, developmental time was longer and adult body weight was lower c[r] ...
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