Rossi, M.N., Haga, E.B., Wood, A., Nunes, B.C.A. ; Contente, R. F. (2025) Variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism in a seed-feeding beetle: testing the effect of seed quality over two generations without larval competition. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 19, 68.

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Rossi M.N., Rodrigues, L.M.S. (2023) Investigating spatiotemporal patterns, spatial density dependence and fruit quality in a plant-bruchine-parasitoids system. Écoscience, 30, 130-146.

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Ishino, M.N., De Sibio, P.R., Rossi, M.N. (2023) Ecological and biological aspects of a leaf miner on Erythroxylum tortuosum (Mart.) (Erythroxylaceae) in a Cerrado Fragment in Southeastern Brazil. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 33, 90-96.

 

Sousa-Lopes, B., Rossi, M.N., Del'Claro, K. (2022) Phenotypic plasticity in Acanthoscelides quadridentatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its effect on the seed fate of Mimosa setosa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Ecological Entomology, 47, 728-735.

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Iano, D.M., Araújo, B.L., Rossi, M.N. (2022) Intraspecific competition and persistence in Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): an experimental analysis in a stage‐structured population. Austral Entomology, 61, 86-96.

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Cesar, C.S., Rossi, M.N. (2019) The interaction effect between infraspecific competition and seed quality on the life-history traits of the seed-feeding beetle Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 167, 986-999.

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Silva, A.V., Rossi, M.N. (2019) When a seed-feeding beetle is a predator and also increases the speed of seed germination: an intriguing interaction with an invasive plant. Evolutionary Ecology, 33, 211-232.

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Rossi, M.N., Haga, E.B. (2019) Testing Rensch's rule in Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus, a seed-feeding beetle infesting Leucaena leucocephala plants. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 97, 304-311.

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Ulian, C.M.V., Rossi, M.N. (2017) Intraspecific variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism, and a test of Rensch’s rule in bats. Acta Zoologica, 98, 377-386.

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Wood, A., Haga, E.B., Costa, V.A., Rossi, M.N. (2017) Geographic distribution, large-scale spatial structure and diversity of parasitoids of the seed-feeding beetle Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 107, 322-331.

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Haga, E.B., Rossi, M.N. (2016) The effect of seed traits on geographic variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism of the seed-feeding beetle Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus. Ecology and Evolution, 6, 6892-6905.

 

De Sibio, P.R., Rossi, M.N. (2016) Interaction effect between herbivory and plant fertilization on extrafloral nectar production and on seed traits: an experimental study with Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 109, 1612-1618.

  

Freitas, J.D., Rossi, M.N. (2015) Interaction between trophobiont insects and ants: the effect of mutualism on the associated arthropod community. Journal of Insect Conservation, 19, 627-638.

 

De Carvalho-Ricardo, M.C., Uieda, W., Fonseca, R.C.B., Rossi, M.N. (2014) Frugivory and the effects of ingestion by bats on the seed germination of three pioneering plants. Acta Oecologica, 55, 51-57.

 

Rodrigues, L.M.S., Viana, J.H., Ribeiro-Costa, C.S., Rossi, M.N. (2012) The extent of seed predation by bruchine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) in a heterogeneous landscape in Southeastern Brazil. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66, 271-279.

 

De Sibio, P.R., Rossi, M.N. (2012) Oviposition of a leaf-miner on Erythroxylum tortuosum (Erythroxylaceae) leaves: hierarchical variation of physical leaf traits. Australian Journal of Botany, 60, 136-142.

 

Ishino, M.N., De Sibio, P.R., Rossi, M.N. (2011) Leaf trait variation on Erythroxylum tortuosum (Erythroxylaceae) and its relationship with oviposition preference and stress by a host-specific leaf-miner. Austral Ecology, 36, 203-211.

 

Rossi, M.N., Rodrigues, L.M.S., Ishino, M.N., Kestring, D. (2011) Oviposition pattern and within-season spatial and temporal variation of pre-dispersal seed predation in a population of Mimosa bimucronata trees. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 5, 209-217.

 

Menezes, L.C.C.R., Klein, J., Kestring, D., Rossi, M.N. (2010) Bottom-up and top down effects in a pre-dispersal seed predation system: are non-predated seeds damaged? Basic and Applied Ecology, 11, 126-134.

 

Kestring, D., Menezes, L.C.C.R., Tomaz, C.A., Lima, G.P.P., Rossi, M.N. (2009) Relationship among phenolic contents, seed predation and physical seed traits in Mimosa bimucronata plants. Journal of Plant Biology, 52, 569-576.

 

Kestring, D., Klein, J., Menezes, L.C.C.R., Rossi, M.N. (2009) Imbibition phases and germination response of Mimosa bimucronata (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) to water submersion. Aquatic Botany, 91, 105-109.

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Silva, L.A., Maimoni-Rodella, R.C.S., Rossi, M.N. (2007) A preliminary investigation of pre-dispersal seed predation by Acanthoscelides schrankiae Horn (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) in Mimosa bimucronata (DC.) Kuntze trees. Neotropical Entomology, 36, 197-202.

 

Tomaz, C.A., Kestring, D., Rossi, M.N. (2007) Effects of the seed predator Acanthoscelides schrankiae (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) on viability of its host plant Mimosa bimucronata (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae). Biological Research, 40, 281-290.

 

Rossi, M.N., Godoy, W.A.C. (2006) Prey choice by Nesticodes rufipes (Araneae: Theridiidae) on Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) and Dermestes ater (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Journal of Arachnology, 34, 186-193.

 

Menezes, L.C.C.R; Rossi, M.N., Reigada, C. (2005) Consequences of refuge for the functional response of Dermestes ater (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) to Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae). Population Ecology, 47, 213-219.