EM BUSCA DE LACUNAS E PADRÕES NO ESTUDO DA Frugivoria E DISPERSÃO POR AVES NO CERRADO

Abstract

Most plants produce fruits that attract animals seeking to enjoy its dispersion capacity. Birds are the ones that most seek out plants to obtain essential nutrients for their subsistence, which leads to an exchange of favors called frugivory. Despite so much value for the conservation and recovery of ecosystems, knowledge on this topic may be scarce or not parameterized for some environments, leaving several gaps that do not allow the analysis of any pattern. Like this, aimed to characterize the study of these plant-animal interactions in the cerrado, indicating possible gaps and trends, based on articles published in scientific journals. For Therefore, a review of the literature on frugivory and dispersal by birds in areas of Cerrado Biome in Brazil, using specific keywords on the Google platform academic. As a result, 24 articles were gathered, all published in international magazines. impact factor less than 2 and qualis A3 or lower. Together they studied 109 species different from plants and 177 from birds. In relation to the diaspores, the berry type, purple in color and measuring 0.5 to 1 cm in length, were the most recorded. Furthermore, Not all articles provided information about how the fruits were treated by birds. Other factor, was the small number of universities and regions carrying out research on the bird-plant interaction in the Cerrado, great lack of information on nutritional content of fruits (only 1 article provided such information) and the absence of a growth trend production of articles over the years. Considering the high diversity of these organisms and environments in the cerrado, it is concluded that there are several gaps that need to be filled for better knowledge and conservation of the fauna and flora of the Cerrado biome.