Journal
ECOLOGY
Volume 101, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3149
Keywords
Asteraceae; Cecidomyiidae; Diptera; Fabaceae; host-plant communities; insect galls; Neotropical savannah; Tephritidae
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- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Funding Source: Medline
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [312752/2018-0, 140158/2018-9, 140128/2019-0] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent decades have seen increased research interest in the processes and mechanisms related to insect gall richness and host plants. The data set provided here includes 968 records of interactions between galling insects and host plants for the Cerrado biome. The data set comprises 505 species of 222 genera and 67 families of host plants. The botanical families most represented in the data set are Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, Malpighiaceae, and Melastomataceae, which account for similar to 48.5% of all records and 52% of the total number of species. The gall-inducing insects listed in the data set include 48 species of Cecidomyiidae and one species of Tephritidae. This data set is the first to compile inventories of plant-galling insect communities and information about the diversity and distribution of insect galls and their host plants in the Cerrado. The data set reveals knowledge gaps and opportunities for future research on patterns of diversity and distribution, and provides a basis for generating and testing new ecological hypotheses. Please cite this data paper when using the current data in publications and let us know how the data are used in the publications. There are no copyright restrictions.
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