Neotropical Insect Galls (eBook)

Introduction.- 1. Neotropical Insect galls: status of knowledge and perspectives; G. Wilson Fernandes et al.- 2. Developmental Anatomy of Galls in the Neotropics: Arthropods Stimuli vs. Host Plant Constraints; Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias et al.- 3. Functional Gradients in Insect Gall Tissues: Studies on Neotropical Host Plants; Denis Coelho de Oliveira et al.- 4. Gall Morphotypes in the Neotropics and the Need to Standardize Them; Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias et al.- 5. Population Ecology of Galling Arthropods in the Neotropics; Tiago Shizen Pacheco Toma, Milton de Souza Mendonça Jr.- 6. Bottom-up Effects on Gall Distribution; Milton Barbosa, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes.- 7. Natural selection on a tropical system: gall-size distribution on Waltheria indica L. (Malvaceae); José M. A. Figueiredo et al.- 8. Density of insect galls in the forest understorey and canopy: Neotropical, Gondwanan or global patterns?; Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro et al.- 9. Galling insects as indicators of habitat quality; Tiago Shizen Pacheco Toma et al.- 10. Host specificity of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on ten species of Inga (Fabaceae); Amandine Bourg, Paul Hanson.- 11. Galling insect community associated with Copaifera langsdorffii (Fabaceae): the role of inter- and intra-annual host plant phenology; Marcilio Fagundes.- 12. Galling insects on Caryocar brasiliense Camb. (Caryocaraceae); Germano Leão Demolin Leite.- 13. Baccharis: a Neotropical Model System to Study Insect Plant Interactions; G. Wilson Fernandes et al.- 14. Galls and Galling Arthropods of southern Brazil; Milton de Souza Mendonça et al.- 15. Galling insects in the Brazilian Cerrado: Ecological patterns and perspectives; Walter Santos de Araújo et al.- 16. Galls in Brazilian mountains: new reports and perspectives; Marco Antonio A. Carneiro et al.- 17. Galls in the Brazilian Coastal Vegetation; Valéria Cid Maia et al.- 18. Galls from Brazilian Atlantic Forest: status of knowledge and perspectives; Jean Carlos Santos et al.- 19. Galling Insects in the Pantanal Wetland and Amazonian Rainforest; Genimar Rebouças Julião et al.- 20. Galls from Brazilian Tropical Dry Forests: status of knowledge and perspectives; Marcel S. Coelho et al.- 21. Galls of the temperate forest of southern South America: Argentina and Chile; Carolina Quintero et al.- 22. Gall-Inducing Insects and Their Associated Parasitoid Assemblages in the Forests of Panama; Enrique Medianero et al.- 23. Insect galls of Costa Rica and their parasitoids; Paul Hanson et al.- 24. Mexican gall-inducing insects: importance of biotic and abiotic factors on species richness in tropical dry forest; Pablo Cuevas-Reyes et al.