J T Klein’s research while affiliated with Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and other places

... In this work, we analysed for the first time several crop factors (local and temporal) that influence the abundance and trophic guilds of Pentatomoidea, a group of particular relevance in Neotropical rice paddies since it includes several of the main pests of the crop. Previous studies on this group associated with rice in this region have presented the relative abundance of stink bugs (Pentatomidae) during the rice growing cycle (Pantoja et al., 1995) and the winter abundance of pentatomoids on a host plant species around rice paddies (Klein et al., 2013). The vast majority of studies conducted on the continent have considered stink bug pest species separately and analysed their abundance, spatial distribution and damage caused during the crop cycle (Alves et al., 2016;Awuni et al., 2015;Cherry et al., 1998;Cherry & Nuessly, 2010;Krinski & Foerster, 2017;Santana et al., 2018), have separately recorded the seasonal abundance of stink bug pest species in the rice crop and in host plants around the plots (Botta et al., 2014;Pasini et al., 2018) and have studied the winter abundance, bioecology and local factors influencing stink bug pests in their host plants within rice paddies (dos Silva Santos, 2003;Fuentes-Rodríguez et al., 2019, 2020Santos et al., 2006). ...

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Crop traits influencing abundance and distribution of rice-associated pentatomoids and trophic guilds to unveil potential pests