Herbáceas e sua importância na manutenção de polinizadores

Abstract

The recurring environmental impacts of recent years contribute to the loss of fauna and flora exponentially. The restoration of an ecosystem is initially done in small steps, following a natural evolutionary order. An example is succession, in which herbaceous plants initiate the life process in these ecosystems and promote stability, opening space for animals to return and forest recovery/regeneration. The present work aimed to determine the importance of herbaceous plants as maintenance agents for pollinator species. Searches and analyzes of articles published in the last 20 years were carried out, available on Google Scholar, Scielo, Periodicals/CAPES and Web of Science platforms, from July 2020 to July 2022. In all, 795 species from 98 botanical families were studied and showed their richness mainly in South America with the families Asteraceae and Fabaceae, frequently visited by Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera of nectarivorous majority, distributed by 19 biomes, with the Atlantic forest contributing with the greatest diversity. It can be said, after the survey carried out, that herbaceous plants are concentrated in South America, predominantly in Brazil, mainly in the Atlantic forest, the species studied have generalist characteristics and were mainly nectariferous and melittophilous.