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Galls in Brazilian Mountains: New Reports and Perspectives

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Neotropical Insect Galls

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In the last decade, a significant project was undertaken with the objective of studying the patterns of distribution of gall-forming insects across different individual mountains in the Espinhaço mountain range and Serra da Mantiqueira. Three hypotheses were tested that seek to describe the patterns of gall-inducing insects in order to test their “generality”. (1) hypothesis of altitudinal gradient, which predicts that the richness of gall-forming insects diminishes with altitude, (2) hypothesis of plant richness, which predicts that richness of gall-forming insects increases with plant richness, and (3) hypothesis of plant density, which predicts that the richness of gall-forming insects increases with plant density. We have found that the richness of gall-forming insects does not vary linearly with altitude. Gall-inducing insects respond significantly to the number and composition of host plants. The majority of regional richness of gall-forming insects is explained by their beta richness component, suggesting that the composition of the community of gall-forming insects reflects the patterns of distribution of their host plants in the tropics.

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    Marcel S. Coelho & Geraldo Wilson Fernandes

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Carneiro, M.A.A., Coelho, M.S., Fernandes, G.W. (2014). Galls in Brazilian Mountains: New Reports and Perspectives. In: Fernandes, G., Santos, J. (eds) Neotropical Insect Galls. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8783-3_16

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