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Tipo de Documento: Artigo
Título : Changes in leaf chlorophyll content associated with flowering and its role in the diversity of phytophagous insects in a tree species from a semiarid Caatinga
Autor : Sousa-Souto​, Leandro
Bocchiglieri, Adriana
Dias, Douglas de Matos
Ferreira, Anthony Santana
Lemos Filho, Jose Pires de
Fecha de publicación : 29-jun-2018
Resumen : Phytophagous insects choose their feeding resources according to their own requirements, but their feeding preferences in the semiarid Caatinga have rarely been studied. Flowering trees leads to a greater diversity of flower visitors and their predators in the host plant, but little is known about why the diversity of phytophagous insects not associated with flowers is also increased. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diversity of sap-sucking, wood-boring and leaf-chewing insects associated with leaf chlorophyll content in flowering and non-flowering plants of Poincianella pyramidalis, an endemic tree of Caatinga. We used a leaf chlorophyll index (LCI) as a surrogate for resource quality, and an entomological umbrella to collect phytophagous insects. We show that trees which bloomed demonstrated higher chlorophyll content, greater abundance and a significant difference in the composition of phytophagous insect species when compared to non-flowering trees (p < 0.05). The results suggest that not only the presence of flowers themselves, but also the higher nutritional quality of leaf tissue, can explain the differences in species diversity and abundance of phytophagous insects. Exceptional flowering trees in the Caatinga area studied may thus act as spots of high quality resources, favouring changes in the diversity of insects in this environment.
Palabras clave : Ecologia
Biodiversidade
Caatinga
Semi-árido
Plant science
Biodiversity
Ecology
Inflorescence
Chlorophyll content
Phenology
Poincianella pyramidalis
Tropical dry forest
ISSN : 2167-8359
Es parte de: PeerJ
Idioma : eng
Citación : SOUSA-SOUTO, L. et al. Changes in leaf chlorophyll content associated with flowering and its role in the diversity of phytophagous insects in a tree species from a semiarid Caatinga. PeerJ, 29 jun. 2018. Disponível em: <https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5059>. Acesso em: 6 set. 2018.
License: Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0)
URI : http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/8869
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