Luiz Ernesto Costa‐Schmidt

Nuptial gifts and sexual behavior in two species of spider (Araneae, Trechaleidae, Paratrechalea)

Luiz Ernesto Costa‐Schmidt, James E. Carico, Aldo Mellender de‏ Araújo · Die Naturwissenschaften · 2008 · 65 citations

Insect Social Behavior, Nuptial Gifts, Evolutionary Biology +4

To feed or to wrap? Female silk cues elicit male nuptial gift construction in a semiaquatic trechaleid spider

María J. Albo, Luiz Ernesto Costa‐Schmidt, Fernando Guilherme Perazzo Costa · Journal of Zoology · 2009 · 44 citations

Behavioral Sciences, Pheromone Biochemistry, Social Behavior +14

It is a matter of taste: chemical signals mediate nuptial gift acceptance in a neotropical spider

Pedro Brum, Luiz Ernesto Costa‐Schmidt, Aldo Mellender de‏ Araújo · Behavioral Ecology · 2011 · 34 citations

Chemical Signals, Entomology, Social Insect +18

Spider diversity responds strongly to edge effects but weakly to vegetation structure in riparian forests of Southern Brazil

Everton Nei Lopes Rodrigues, Milton de Souza Mendonça, Luiz Ernesto Costa‐Schmidt · Arthropod-Plant Interactions · 2014 · 32 citations

Spider Diversity, Biodiversity, Vegetation Structure +6

Negative effects of prolonged dietary restriction on male mating effort: nuptial gifts as honest indicators of long-term male condition

Renato C. Macedo‐Rego, Luiz Ernesto Costa‐Schmidt, Eduardo S. A. Santos et al. · Scientific Reports · 2016 · 26 citations · Full text