Taxonomic review and analysis of spatial and environmental process over distribution of species of mites associated with rubber trees in Brazil

• Grant number: 13/09600-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: January 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Reinaldo José Fazzio Feres
• Grantee: Felipe Micali Nuvoloni
• Supervisor: Benjamin Gilbert
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Toronto (U of T), Canada
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/19935-1 - Influence of geographic distribution in the structural pattern of the mite community on rubber trees(Hevea brasiliensis MUELL ARG. Euphorbiaceae) in Brazil., BP.DR

Abstract

The mite fauna associated with rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis MUELL Arg) has been studied in the last years due to its importance as pest status. Meanwhile, instead its importance, little is known about patterns of species occurrence and distribution over this crop. Aim to fulfill some gaps, we took samples of rubber trees from poorly studied areas, adding this information in a preexisting database from DZSJRP ACARI collection (http://www.splink.cria.org.br), and from the one made over the doctorate of the student. This way, the project aims to improve the quality of identification of sampled specimens with the help of specialized taxonomists present at "OSU Summer Acarology Program". Furthermore, the student plain a internship of six months at Gilberts Lab, associated with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology center of University of Toronto, a worldwide reference in ecology studies, where all the statistical and ecologycal analysis will be done, that includes multivariate analysis, partial regression, CCA partial (PCNM), also multiple correlations, verifying the relative importance of geographical location and environmental features over the communities of mites. Beyond that, would be possible to get deeper in the theoretical knowledge of community ecology and distribution species patterns. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

NUVOLONI, FELIPE MICALI; FAZZIO FERES, REINALDO JOSE; GILBERT, BENJAMIN. Species Turnover through Time: Colonization and Extinction Dynamics across Metacommunities. American Naturalist, v. 187, n. 6, p. 786-796, JUN 2016. (13/09600-0, 10/19935-1)