Title:	Spatial and temporal dynamics of drosophilid larval assemblages associated to fruits
Authors:	Mata, Renata Alves da Valadão, Henrique Tidon, Rosana
Assunto::	Drosófila Diversidade biológica
Issue Date:	Jan-2015
Publisher:	Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Citation:	MATA, Renata Alves da; VALADÃO, Henrique; TIDON, Rosana. Spatial and temporal dynamics of drosophilid larval assemblages associated to fruits. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, São Paulo, v. 59, n. 1, p. 50-57, jan./mar. 2015. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262015000100050&lng=en&nrm=iso>. Acesso em: 8 maio 2018. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbe.2015.02.006.
Abstract:	The study of organisms and their resources is critical to further understanding population dynamics in space and time. Although drosophilids have been widely used as biological models, their relationship with breeding and feeding sites has received little attention. Here, we investigate drosophilids breeding in fruits in the Brazilian Savanna, in two contrasting vegetation types, throughout 16 months. Specifically, larval assemblages were compared between savannas and forests, as well as between rainy and dry seasons. The relationships between resource availability and drosophilid abundance and richness were also tested. The community (4,022 drosophilids of 23 species and 2,496 fruits of 57 plant taxa) varied widely in space and time. Drosophilid assemblages experienced a strong bottleneck during the dry season, decreasing to only 0.5% of the abundance of the rainy season. Additionally, savannas displayed lower richness and higher abundance than the forests, and were dominated by exotic species. Both differences in larval assemblages throughout the year and between savannas and gallery forests are consistent with those previously seen in adults. Although the causes of this dynamic are clearly multifactorial, resource availability (richness and abundance of rotten fruits) was a good predictor of the fly assemblage structure.
Licença::	Revista Brasileira de Entomologia - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY NC 4.0). Fonte: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262015000100050&lng=en&nrm=iso. Acesso em: 8 maio 2018.
DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbe.2015.02.006
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