Search Results - "Faria, Lucas D.B"
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Human presence as a determinant of the occurrence of mammals in a high diversity protected area of Cerrado-Caatinga ecotone in Brazil
Published in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (01-01-2023)“…The Cerrado domain and its biodiversity has suffered several anthropogenic influences. Our objective was to evaluate the influence of biotic and anthropic…”
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Fluctuations in density of an outbreak species drive diversity cascades in food webs
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-10-2007)“…Patterns in food-web structure have frequently been examined in static food webs, but few studies have attempted to delineate patterns that materialize in food…”
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Morphological traits, allometric relationship and competition of two seed-feeding species of beetles in infested pods
Published in Revista brasileira de entomologia (01-07-2017)“…Pair-wise competition produces asymmetric consequences for the interacting species, resulting in reduction of species fitness at the individual scale; however,…”
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The eco-evolutionary dynamics of a predator-prey system across an r/K continuum
Published in Ecological modelling (15-11-2020)“…•We show a method for the partitioning of the selection gradient in its r- and K-selection components.•K-selection replaces r-selection in crowded environments…”
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Simplification effect of lead soil contamination on the structure and function of a food web of plant-associated insects
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (15-09-2023)“…Anthropogenic activities such as mining, industry, urban waste production, and the overuse of agricultural inputs may result in the contamination of the…”
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Soil contamination with permissible levels of lead negatively affects the community of plant-associated insects: A case of study with kale
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (01-07-2022)“…This study investigated whether lead (Pb), at concentrations allowed for soil, affects the community of insects that live in the aerial part of plants. We…”
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Trade-offs between growth, reproduction and defense in response to resource availability manipulations
Published in PloS one (22-08-2018)“…The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the most endangered biomes in the world. We evaluated the sustainability of leaf harvest in one of the most important Cerrado…”
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Insect sociality plays a major role in a highly complex flower-visiting network in the neotropical savanna
Published in Apidologie (01-03-2022)“…Mutualistic networks between plants and their flower visitors provide information about the ecological dynamics and coevolutionary processes shaping species…”
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Four years host-parasitoid food web: testing sampling effort on trophic levels
Published in Studies on neotropical fauna and environment (04-05-2018)“…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…”
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Multitrophic interactions drive body size variations in seed‐feeding insects
Published in Ecological entomology (01-06-2020)“…1. The intensity of community interactions and the structure of food webs can be associated with an organism's body size. However, little is known about how…”
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Seed predation food web, nutrient availability, and impact on the seed germination of Senegalia tenuifolia (Fabaceae)
Published in Revista de biología tropical (01-12-2015)“…Food web studies, which include qualitative and quantitative information about species interactions for all trophic levels in a specific community, are…”
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Foraging behaviour by an intraguild predator blowfly, Chrysomya albiceps (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
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Morphological traits, allometric relationship and competition of two seed-feeding species of beetles in infested pods
Published in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia“…Abstract Pair-wise competition produces asymmetric consequences for the interacting species, resulting in reduction of species fitness at the individual scale;…”
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