Felipe Marcel Neves

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at University of São Paulo

Social insects present behavioral, morphologic and social variation, which bring ideal situations to study emergent temporal-spatial patterns. In this study, we observe the self-organization in the movement activity of social insects in different species and densities. In our preliminary results, all the species observed present a pattern more comp...

A sociobiologia foi considerada uma disciplina polêmica durante seus primeiros anos, mas tal como a própria teoria da seleção natural, tornou-se uma parte fundamental do estudo do comportamento social. Desde seus primórdios, com os insetos sociais,a abordagem sociobiológica sempre trouxe novos argumentos e gerou teorias que resultaram em diversos e...

Perreyia flavipes Konow, 1899 (Pergidae: Perreyinae) is a sawfly species with gregarious larvae commonly found in open areas in southern Brazil through Uruguay and northern Argentina. The combination of highly gregarious larvae with the production of a variety of toxins in P. flavipes has led to severe cases of intoxication in a variety of livestoc...

In this study, we used recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) and recurrence plots (RPs) to compare the movement activity of individual workers of three ant species, as well as a gregarious beetle species. RQA and RPs quantify the number and duration of recurrences of a dynamical system, including a detailed quantification of signals that could b...

Division of labor is among the main factors to explain the evolutionary success of social systems, from the origins of multicellularity to complex animal societies. The remarkable ecological success of social insects seems to have been largely driven by ergonomic advantages stemming from the behavioral specialization of workers. However, little is...

Ants, an ecologically successful and numerically dominant group of animals, play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, nutrient recyclers, and regulators of plant growth and reproduction in most terrestrial ecosystems. Further, ants are widely used as bioindicators of the ecological impact of land use. We gathered information of ant sp...

Cannibalism is a behavioral characteristic found in a wide variety of animal groups. Although the rates of cannibalism can vary from one group to another, studies indicate that the main factors contributing to an increase in the frequency of such behavior are the availability of food, population density, the behavior and availability of victims, an...

Division of labor is among the main factors to explain the evolutionary success of social systems, from the origins of multi-cellularity to complex animal societies. The remarkable ecological success of social insects seems to have been largely driven by ergonomic advantages stemming from the behavioral specialization of workers. However, little is...

How much leaf area do insects eat? A data set of insect herbivory sampled globally with a standardized protocol. Ecology 102(4): Abstract. Herbivory is ubiquitous. Despite being a potential driver of plant distribution and performance, herbivory remains largely undocumented. Some early attempts have been made to review, globally, how much leaf area...

A ausência de componentes não-verbais na internet pressupõe que a comunicação escrita substitua, mesmo que parcialmente, elementos biológicos fundamentais utilizados durante o reconhecimento de parceiros. Tais elementos biológicos constituem-se da chamada linguagem não verbal, formada de elementos como expressões faciais, orientação corporal, aparê...

Dataset of the time series of movement activity. This dataset (Excel workbook format) is composed by the analyzed time series (normalized to zero-mean and standard deviation of one) of the activity dynamics of single individuals from all the species used in this study. The original x and y coordinates and non-normalized data are provided as well. (...