A5015602466- Plant and animal studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Piperaceae Chemical and Biological Studies
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
Instituto Federal do Amazonas
2020-2022
National Institute of Amazonian Research
2014-2021
Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale
2015
Abstract To determine the effect of rivers, environmental conditions, and isolation by distance on distribution species in Amazonia. Location: Brazilian Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Birds, fishes, bats, ants, termites, butterflies, ferns + lycophytes, gingers palms. We compiled a unique dataset biotic abiotic information from 822 plots spread over Amazon. evaluated effects environment, geographic dispersal barriers (rivers) assemblage composition animal plant using multivariate...
Occurrence patterns are partly shaped by the affinity of species with habitat conditions. For winged organisms, flight-related attributes vital for ecological performance. However, due to different reproductive roles each sex, we expect divergence in flight energy budget, and consequently selection responses between sexes. We used tropical frugivorous butterflies as models investigate coevolution morphology, sex dimorphism vertical stratification. studied 94 Amazonian fruit-feeding sampled...
1. Understanding the causes of spatial variation biodiversity is an important goal in community ecology. This study investigated response fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages to environmental gradients resulting from transition ombrophilous forests white‐sand northern Brazil by assessing taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic descriptors structure. 2. Butterflies were sampled with bait traps B razilian A mazon, while their traits relatedness either measured directly or gathered literature....
Abstract Landscape fragmentation is one of the greatest threats to environments globally, affecting all living organisms within fragments at many assembly levels. Despite such general assumptions, very few reports exist on diversity patterns Amazonian social wasps (Polistinae) in response fragmentation. Our study aims addressing how community wasp change from continuous fragmented landscapes Amazon rainforest. We collected for a year (11 520 trap‐hour effort) forest and highly disturbed...
Journal Article Combining Taxonomic and Functional Approaches to Unravel the Spatial Distribution of an Amazonian Butterfly Community Get access Márlon B. Graça, Graça 3 1 Biodiversity Coordination, National Institute for Research, INPA, Manaus, Brazil ( marlon_lgp@hotmail.com ; morais@inpa.gov.br beth@inpa.gov.br pacolipe@gmail.com souza.jorge@gmail.com buenoas@gmail.com ), 2 Center Integrated Studies Biodiversity, CENBAM, Brazil, Corresponding author, e-mail: Search other works by this...
Larger species tend to feed on abundant resources, which nonetheless have lower quality or degradability, the so-called Jarman-Bell principle. The "eat more" hypothesis posits that larger animals compensate for diets through higher consumption rates. If so, evolutionary shifts in metabolic scaling should affect scope this compensation, but whether has happened is unknown. Here, we investigated issue using termites, major tropical detritivores along a humification gradient ranging from dead...
ABSTRACT Sphingidae attracted to light were systematically collected in an Amazonian forest canopy. Sampling occurred at a height of 34 m upland primary rainforest plateau the Cueiras River basin, located within Experimental Station Tropical Silviculture, Manaus municipality, Amazonas, Brazil. The hawkmoths using vertical white sheet illuminated by 250 W mixed mercury and 20 black-light (BLB) fluorescent tube. Monthly collections carried out from January December 2004, during three nights...
In this study, we provide detailed ethological notes on the predation behaviour of Chvalaea yolkamini Jaume-Schinkel, Soares & Barros, 2020, a neotropical sit-and-wait dance fly from Mexico, with description and video evidence hunting feeding behaviours. Furthermore, analysed in situ success relation to biotic abiotic factors (prey size, prey taxonomic group, temperature, humidity perch height). We observed 94 individuals for total ~15.68 hours. uses its hind legs armed spikes strike handle...
The morphology and biological aspects of the immature stages Heraclides thoas (Linnaeus, 1771) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) are described. Eggs H. were collected in Belém, Pará, Brazil, larvae reared on Piper aduncum L. (Piperales: Piperaceae). Parasitism by Sarcodexia lambens (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) pupal stage was observed.