Psyche Plant-Arthropod Interactions: A Behavioral Approach Guest Editors: Kleber Del-Claro, Monique Johnson, and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi Plant-Arthropod Interactions: A Behavioral Approach Psyche Plant-Arthropod Interactions: A Behavioral Approach Guest Editors: Kleber Del-Claro, Monique Johnson, and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi Copyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Psyche.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Toshiharu Akino, Japan Lawrence G. Harshman, USA Lynn M. Riddiford, USA Sandra Allan, USA Abraham Hefetz, Israel S. K. A. Robson, Australia Arthur G. Appel, USA John Heraty, USA C. 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Box 593, 38400-902 Uberlandia,ˆ MG, Brazil 2 Laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions UMR CNRS 7267, Equipe´ Ecologie, Evolution, Symbiose, Universit´edePoitiers, 40 Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France Correspondence should be addressed to Kleber Del-Claro, [email protected] Received 14 November 2012; Accepted 14 November 2012 Copyright © 2012 Kleber Del-Claro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In a community, the species present may be linked plant and/or animal species involved (e.g., [4, 5]). In directly or indirectly through resources and consumption. addition, many of these studies revealed that the final More than 90% of the fixed energy in terrestrial systems interaction results often differed as a function of season is processed autotrophically by plants and thus almost all and/or year, thus clearly demonstrating the importance terrestrial fauna depend on this production. Classically, of studying the natural history of interacting species in in systems involving three trophic levels, such as plants, order to truly further our understanding of the existing herbivores, and predators, a trophic cascade describes the interactions [6]. Also, the outcomes of interactions may positive top-down effects of the third trophic level on the vary as a function of the physical and biotic changes in biomass, richness, or composition of the producer species the environment. Thus, there is no mutualistic relationship (see [1] and references therein). that will be always and unconditionally one of mutualism. In a more recent and realistic approach, biodiversity is Similarly, predatory or parasitic relationships may be subject viewed and evaluated in ways that embrace the extreme to changes occurring more or less quickly over evolutionary richness inherent in plant-animal interactions, including time that can drive the results of the interaction in a different not only trophic relationships, but also aspects of life direction. histories, biology, and behavior of interacting species [1]. Although greatly recognized as relevant, basic knowledge The richness of biotic interactions has been identified as the concerning species interactions, including plant phenologi- main force responsible