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Kleber Del-Claro is affiliated with the Federal University of Uberlândia in Brazil. Their research spans multiple aspects of agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. They have contributed extensively to fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and insect science. Their work also covers plant science and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics of Kleber Del-Claro's work include plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, insect and pesticide research, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, animal and plant science education, and fern and epiphyte biology.

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. Notable frequent co-authors include Eduardo Soares Calixto, Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi, Denise Lange, Diego V. Anjos, and Wesley Dáttilo.

Their research has been published in a variety of specialized journals, with repeated contributions to the following publication venues:

  • Plants
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecological Entomology
  • Biotropica
  • Sociobiology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Climate seasonality drives ant-plant-herbivore interactions via plant phenology in an extrafloral nectary-bearing plant community, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • The effects of ants on pest control: a meta-analysis, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Optimal Defense Theory in an ant-plant mutualism: Extrafloral nectar as an induced defence is maximized in the most valuable plant structures, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Ants as diaspore removers of non-myrmecochorous plants: a meta-analysis, 2020, Oikos
  • Net benefits of a mutualism: Influence of the quality of extrafloral nectar on the colony fitness of a mutualistic ant, 2021, Biotropica

Best Publications

  • Conditional outcomes in a neotropical treehopper-ant association: temporal and species-specific variation in ant protection and homopteran fecundity.

    Kleber Del-Claro;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Effect of herbivore deterrence by ants on the fruit set of an extrafloral nectary plant, Qualea multiflora (Vochysiaceae)

    Kleber Del-Claro;Vanderlei Berto;Wilson Réu

  • Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness

    Jonas Byk;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies

    K. Del-Claro;V. Rico-Gray;H. M. Torezan-Silingardi;E. Alves-Silva

  • Ant‐Homoptera Interactions in a Neotropical Savanna: The Honeydew‐Producing Treehopper, Guayaquila xiphias (Membracidae), and its Associated Ant Fauna on Didymopanax vinosum (Araliaceae)1

    Kleber Del-Claro;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Influence of extrafloral nectary phenology on ant–plant mutualistic networks in a neotropical savanna

    Denise Lange;Wesley Dáttilo;Kleber Del‐Claro

  • Ant-Homoptera interaction: do alternative sugar sources distract tending ants?

    Kleber Del-Claro;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Ant visitation to extrafloral nectaries decreases herbivory and increases fruit set in Chamaecrista debilis (Fabaceae) in a Neotropical savanna

    Elynton Alves do Nascimento;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Nectar- and pollen-gathering Cephalotes ants provide no protection against herbivory: a new manipulative experiment to test ant protective capabilities

    Jonas Byk;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Conditional outcomes in ant–plant–herbivore interactions influenced by sequential flowering

    Andréa Andrade Vilela;Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Diversity of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Cerrado fragments of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

    Ábner Elpino-Campos;Kleber Del-Claro;Fábio Prezoto

  • Multitrophic Relationships, Conditional Mutualisms, and the Study of Interaction Biodiversity in Tropical Savannas

    Kleber Del-Claro

  • Emergent Impacts of Ant and Spider Interactions: Herbivory Reduction in a Tropical Savanna Tree

    Larissa Nahas;Marcelo O. Gonzaga;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Ant-plant interaction in a tropical savanna: may the network structure vary over time and influence on the outcomes of associations?

    Denise Lange;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Do ant visitors to extrafloral nectaries of plants repel pollinators and cause an indirect cost of mutualism

    Mariana A. Assunção;Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Insect-plant interactions: new pathways to a better comprehension of ecological communities in Neotropical savannas

    Kleber Del-Claro;Helena M Torezan-Silingardi

  • Multitrophic interactions in a neotropical savanna: ant–hemipteran systems, associated insect herbivores and a host plant

    Paulo S. Oliveira;Kleber Del-Claro

  • Honeydew flicking by treehoppers provides cues to potential tending ants

    Kleber Del-Claro;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Differences among ant species in plant protection are related to production of extrafloral nectar and degree of leaf herbivory

    R. Fagundes;R. Fagundes;R. Fagundes;W. Dáttilo;S. P. Ribeiro;V. Rico-Gray

  • Individual-based ant-plant networks: diurnal-nocturnal structure and species-area relationship.

    Wesley Dáttilo;Roberth Fagundes;Carlos A. Q. Gurka;Mara S. A. Silva

  • Host specificity of a Brazilian mistletoe, Struthanthus aff. polyanthus (Loranthaceae), in cerrado tropical savanna

    Rafael Arruda;Lucélia Nobre Carvalho;Kleber Del-Claro

Frequent Co-Authors

Wesley Dáttilo
Wesley Dáttilo Instituto de Ecología
Paulo S. Oliveira
Paulo S. Oliveira State University of Campinas
Victor Rico-Gray
Victor Rico-Gray Universidad Veracruzana
Pedro Jordano
Pedro Jordano Spanish National Research Council
André V. L. Freitas
André V. L. Freitas State University of Campinas
Robert J. Marquis
Robert J. Marquis University of Missouri–St. Louis
Laurence A. Mound
Laurence A. Mound Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Xoaquín Moreira
Xoaquín Moreira Spanish National Research Council
Jansen Zuanon
Jansen Zuanon National Institute of Amazonian Research
Judith L. Bronstein
Judith L. Bronstein University of Arizona

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