André Rangel Nascimento

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• Researcher at Federal University of São Carlos

Declines in biodiversity generated by anthropogenic stressors at both species and population levels can alter emergent processes instrumental to ecosystem function and resilience. As such, understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function and its response to climate perturbation is increasingly important, especially in tropical systems w...

Declines in biodiversity generated by anthropogenic stressors at both species and population levels can alter emergent processes instrumental to ecosystem function and resilience. As such, understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function and its response to climate perturbation is increasingly important, especially in tropical systems w...

Insect herbivory can be an important selective pressure and contribute substantially to local plant richness. As herbivory is the result of numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, such as complex insect population dynamics and evolution of plant antiherbivore defenses, it has been difficult to predict variation in herbivory across meaningfu...

Declines in biodiversity generated by anthropogenic stressors at both species and population levels can alter emergent processes instrumental to ecosystem function and resilience. As such, understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function and its response to climate perturbation is increasingly important, especially in tropical systems w...

Declines in biodiversity generated by anthropogenic stressors at both species and population levels can alter emergent processes instrumental to ecosystem function and resilience. As such, understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function and its response to climate perturbation is increasingly important, especially in tropical systems w...

Insect herbivory can vary from an inconsequential biotic interaction to a factor that contributes substantially to the diversity of plants and animals and overall interaction diversity. As herbivory is the result of numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including complex population dynamics and the evolution of plant defense, it has been...

Declines in biodiversity generated by anthropogenic stressors at both species and population levels can alter emergent processes instrumental to ecosystem function and resilience. As such, understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function and its response to climate perturbation is increasingly important, especially in tropical systems w...

Studies of populations on a temporal scale are essential to accessing the real diversity of an area since species may not be distributed equally over time. The temporal distribution of species can be related to climatic conditions, such as temperature and precipitation, which play an important role in biological systems, influencing biotic interact...

Insect herbivory is a critical top-down force structuring plant communities, and quantifying the factors that mediate damage caused by herbivores is fundamental to understanding biodiversity. As herbivory is the result of numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including complex population dynamics and the evolution of plant defense, it has...

Creating robust datasets of plant–insect interactions is important for understanding ecosystem dynamics, and data on species interactions can be used to evaluate conservation interventions. In the present work, we collected plant–herbivore–parasitoid data on an understudied but critical ecosystem—gallery forests in the Brazilian cerrado. We collect...

Fire is one of the main disturbance agents globally and one of the main threats on the Brazilian cerrado (Neotropical savanna), acting as environmental filter for species selection. Individuals of Morpho helenor achillides (C. Felder and R. Felder, 1867) and M. menelaus coeruleus (Perry, 1810) were captured weekly using entomological nets and fruit...

Most research reports changes in biological communities and environmental stability by using community estimators (e.g. species richness and relative abundance) and food-web metrics (e.g. connectance and vulnerability), yet only a few studies have examined how both community and food-web estimators temporally change in tropical terrestrial environm...

Insect seasonality is a known pattern that has intrigued ecologists for over 30 years. However, despite being well understood in general, for several taxa such as Lepidopteran caterpillars its underlying causes and mechanisms are still not fully understood. This is especially critical for Brazilian tropical forests where caterpillars have previousl...

Incomplete sampling is a major problem affecting data quality with respect to food webs. We described a host–parasitoid food web based on data from four years of sampling, evaluated the dataset robustness of the food web, and tested the hypothesis that different trophic levels require different sampling efforts. We sampled Senegalia tenuifolia frui...

Studies focusing cave fauna on granitic caves are relatively rare when compared to carbonatic ones and no one considered replicas in the sampling to test fauna distribution patterns. We describe the terrestrial fauna of Riacho Subterrâneo cave through four sampling occasions (replicas) in different seasons. We analyzed seasonality and substrate pre...

Brassolines are among the largest Neotropical butterflies, with large eyespots resembling vertebrate eyes in their wings. Some subspecies of co-occurring brassolines show striking similarities in wing traits to the extent that mimicry within the tribe has been suggested. When adults exhibit phenotypic convergence, data on immature stages can be use...

This study investigated the extent to which host plants and their associated herbivores determine the local diversity of parasitoids, which depend, directly or indirectly, on these two groups as food resource or shelter for their development. The tritrophic system studied here is composed of Asteraceae, endophagous herbivores associated with their...

This study provides the first survey of the parasitoid fauna reared in flower heads of Asteraceae in the Brazilian cerrado. We investigated the relative importance of herbivore richness and plant species commonness to differences in parasitoid species richness among the plant species. A total of 15,372 specimens from 192 morphospecies belonging to...

ABSTRACT. The caterpillars of Idalus lineosus Walker (Arctiinae) are external folivores that specialize in eating mature leaves of Roupala montana Aubl. (Proteaceae) in the cerrado (Brazilian savannah). The aim of this study was to present morphological and ecological characteristics of the immature stages of I. lineosus. We evaluated relative abun...

Oviposition behavior of western tarnished plant bug, Lygus hesperus Knight, as affected by residual insecticides, was studied in potted as well as field-grown cotton. In this study, we investigated the spatial distribution and phytotomical preference of Lygus oviposition in presquaring and blooming cotton, as affected by selected insecticides. Flon...

The seasonality of fruit-feeding butterflies is very well known. However, few studies have analyzed the influence of climatic variables and resource availability on butterfly temporal distributions. Morpho helenor achillides(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) and M. menelaus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Nymphalidae) were used as models to investigate the influence...

Two myrmecophilous scale insects, Cryptostigma urichi (Cockerell) (Hemiptera, Coccidae) and Farinococcus multispinosus Morrison (Hemiptera, Pseudococcidae), cohabiting inside branches of Anadenanthera falcata (Benth.) Speg. (Fabales, Fabaceae) in the Cerrado area of São Paulo State, Brazil. The soft scale Cryptostigma urichi (Cockerell, 1894) and t...

Chelonus (Microchelonus) murici sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) is described in this work. It was reared from an unknown host in murici fruits, Byrsonima verbascifolia (L.) Rich. ex A. L. Juss. (Malpighiaceae), a species from the Brazilian savannah whose fruits are widely consumed by the population in northern Brazil. The adult of th...

During the study of the insect fauna associated with fruits of Fabaceae from the Brazilian savannah, male and female specimens of Pseudophanerotoma (Pseudophanerotoma) alvarengai Zettel, 1990 (Braconidae: Cheloninae) were reared from Cydia tonosticha (Meyrick, 1922) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). This is the first time that a host species and males of...