Instituto Tecnológico Vale. Rua Boaventura da Silva 955. Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Centro de Ciências Naturais e Tecnologia, Universidade do Estado do Pará. Rua do Una 156. Belém, Pará, Brazil.
J Econ Entomol. 2021 Apr 13;114(2):710-722. doi: 10.1093/jee/toaa284.
Edible fruit plants of tropical forests are important for the subsistence of traditional communities. Understanding the most important pollinators related to fruit and seed production of these plants is a necessary step to protect their pollination service and assure the food security of these communities. However, there are many important knowledge gaps related to floral biology and pollination in megadiverse tropical rainforests, such as the Amazon Forest, due mainly to the high number of plant species. Our study aims to indicate the main pollinators of edible plants (mainly fruits) of the Amazon forest. For this, we adopted a threefold strategy: we built a list of edible plant species, determined the pollination syndrome of each species, and performed a review on the scientific literature searching for their pollinator/visitors. The list of plant species was determined from two specialized publications on Amazon fruit plants, totaling 188 species. The pollination syndrome was determined for 161 species. The syndromes most frequently found among the analyzed species were melittophily (bee pollination), which was found in 101 of the analyzed plant species (54%) and cantharophily (beetle pollination; 26 species; 14%). We also found 238 pollinator/visitor taxa quoted for 52 (28%) plant species in previous publications, with 124 taxa belonging to Apidae family (bees; 52%), mainly from Meliponini tribe (58 taxa; 47%). Knowledge about pollinators is an important step to help on preserving their ecosystem services and maintaining the productivity of fruit trees in the Amazon.
热带森林的可食用水果植物对于传统社区的生存至关重要。了解与这些植物的果实和种子生产相关的最重要的传粉者，是保护其传粉服务并确保这些社区粮食安全的必要步骤。然而，由于植物物种数量众多，在像亚马逊雨林这样的生物多样性热点地区，存在许多与花卉生物学和传粉相关的重要知识空白。我们的研究旨在确定亚马逊森林中可食用植物（主要是水果）的主要传粉者。为此，我们采用了三重策略：我们构建了一个可食用植物物种清单，确定了每个物种的传粉综合征，并对有关其传粉者/访客的科学文献进行了综述。植物物种清单来自两份关于亚马逊水果植物的专业出版物，共确定了 188 个物种。对 161 个物种确定了传粉综合征。在分析的物种中最常见的综合征是蜜蜂传粉（melittophily），在分析的 101 种植物物种（54%）中发现了这种综合征，其次是甲虫传粉（cantharophily；26 种；14%）。我们还在之前的出版物中为 52 种（28%）植物物种找到了 238 种传粉者/访客类群，其中 124 种属于 Apidae 科（蜜蜂；52%），主要来自 Meliponini 部落（58 种；47%）。关于传粉者的知识是帮助保护其生态系统服务和维持亚马逊地区果树生产力的重要步骤。
