The work deals with pollen analysis which was focused on botanical origin of pollen loads where the samples were taken in the area of Zbudkovské morasses in the surroundings of village Hlatavce, district of České Budějovice. The goal of this work was to evaluate individual plant species in the food of honey bee and its flight range from the beehive, supposed to be cca 2km. The samples were taken in 2017, summer and autmn period with a facility called pollen traps. The analysis was based on the classification of pollen loads according to individual colors. The structure of the pollen grain was analysed under a microscope (exina and apertures) and indentified according to database. Microscopic formulation was prepared by deluting pollen loads in glycerin and water. The work was supplementid by photos. Totally there were found 24 kinds of pollen grains in the specific period, the greatest part of pollen loads consisted of 38,22% trifolium types.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2015-08-05T23:11:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Aline G?es.pdf: 1583356 bytes, checksum: 25f6a13a73abce0f5006e99d3dcf5038 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-05T23:11:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Aline G?es.pdf: 1583356 bytes, checksum: 25f6a13a73abce0f5006e99d3dcf5038 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-22 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Studies on hummingbird/plant interactions in the Atlantic Forest have been providing major data on ornithophilous plants and on the role of these birds as pollen vectors and maintainers of plant communities. The aim of this study was to investigate a plant community used by hummingbirds, in order to recognize flowering phenological patterns and to identify pollen loads transported by visiting trochilidae. Fieldwork was performed from April 2009 to August 2011 in the understory of an Atlantic Forest area within Michelin Ecological Reserve, in Igrapi?na municipality, Bahia State. We identified hummingbirds from focal observations in flowering plants, recording their foraging strategies and the local of pollen deposition in their bodies. Data on morphology and floral biology were recorded for plants visited by hummingbirds, such as the number of flowers and buds monthly produced and if the plant was ornithophilous or not. Pollen attached to the beak, head, throat and chest of captured hummingbirds was removed, identified and counted in laboratory. About 18 plant species, most of them ornithophilous (83%), were visited by 13 hummingbird species, with Phaethornis ruber being the most frequent pollen vector. The plant community showed a continuous flowering, with sequential flowering peaks during the studied period. Sixteen pollen types and eight hummingbird species were recorded, with the beak being the main area for pollen deposition (58%), followed by the head (30%), throat (11%) and chest (1%). Differences on the local of pollen deposition on birds reduce the chance of mixing pollen from different species, allowing their coexistence by the sharing of the same pollen vector. Continuous flowering within the plant community assure the presence of their pollinators in the area, avoiding population dislocation towards floral resources. A high investment on floral morphology specialization allows a great deposition of pollen grains over a safe place on the body of the hummingbirds, maximizing plant reproductive success. / Os estudos sobre intera??es planta/beija-flor em Mata Atl?ntica t?m fornecido informa??es importantes sobre plantas ornit?filas e o uso de beija-flores como vetores de p?len e o papel destas aves na manuten??o de comunidades vegetais. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a comunidade vegetal utilizada por beija-flores, conhecer o padr?o fenol?gico de flora??o da comunidade al?m de identificar a carga pol?nica transportada pelos troquil?deos visitantes. O estudo foi realizado de abril de 2009 a agosto de 2011, no sub-bosque de uma ?rea de Mata Atl?ntica na Reserva Ecol?gica da Michelin, Igrapi?na, Bahia. Os beija-flores foram identificados a partir de observa??es focais em plantas floridas, registrando suas estrat?gias de forrageio e o local de deposi??o de p?len no corpo das aves. Das plantas visitadas pelos beija-flores, foram registrados dados sobre morfologia e biologia floral, sendo classificadas como ornit?fila ou n?o ornit?fila, e o n?mero de flores e bot?es produzidos mensalmente. Dos beija-flores capturados, foi removido o p?len impregnado em seu bico, cabe?a, garganta e peito. Os tipos pol?nicos foram identificados e contabilizados em laborat?rio. Foram registradas dezoito esp?cies de plantas, a maioria ornit?fila (83%), sendo visitadas por beija-flores. Treze esp?cies de beija-flores visitaram as plantas, sendo Phaethornis ruber o vetor de p?len mais frequente. Durante o per?odo de estudo, a comunidade vegetal apresentou flora??o cont?nua com picos de flora??o sequenciais. Dezesseis tipos pol?nicos foram identificados em oito esp?cies de beija-flores capturadas, sendo o bico o principal local de deposi??o de p?len (58%), seguido da cabe?a (30%), garganta (11%) e peito (1%). Diverg?ncias no local de deposi??o de p?len no corpo das aves reduz a probabilidade de mistura de p?len heteroespec?fico, permitindo a coexist?ncia de plantas que se beneficiam da partilha de polinizadores. A flora??o cont?nua da comunidade garante a presen?a de seus polinizadores na ?rea, evitando deslocamentos populacionais em busca de recurso. O alto investimento na morfologia floral especializada proporciona a deposi??o de grande quantidade de gr?os de p?len em local seguro do corpo da ave, maximizando o sucesso reprodutivo vegetal.