Background Botanists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the
astonishing species richness and endemism of the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region and …

The adaptive nature of the galler habit has been tentatively explained by the nutrition,
microenvironment, and enemy hypotheses. Soil attributes have direct relationships with …

The analysis on nine inventories on the richness and diversity of galling herbivores in Brazil
accounted for 806 gall systems occurring in 443 host-plant species from 74 plant families …

Plant architecture is considered to affect herbivory intensity, but it is one of the least studied
factors in plant–insect interactions, especially for gall-inducing insects. This study aimed to …

This book seeks to expose the reader to those studies which have made the greatest
contribution to the body of knowledge surrounding the insect galls in the Neotropical region …

Plant species diversity maintains the stability of ecosystems and the diversity of consumer
species such as insect herbivores. Considering that gall-inducing insects are highly …

We surveyed 58 scientific articles published between 1987 and 2018 to evaluate the
representative nature of the Fabaceae as hosts of insect galls in Brazil, and to gain a better …

Gall-inducers are a special guild of endophytic herbivores generating distinct structures
known as galls. Gallers are species-specific, as the galls they induce: each gall morphotype …

A relatively large number of studies reassert the strong relationship between galling insect
diversity and extreme hydric and thermal status in some habitats, and an overall pattern of a …

Mangroves are critically important components of coastal ecosystems. However, their
survival is globally threatened, mostly due to impacts resulting from human activities …