Victor H. D. Silva

• Master of Science
• PhD Student at Federal University of Minas Gerais

Urbanization poses significant threats to pollinators, but they may respond differently to habitat modification according to their nesting and foraging requirements. Despite the diversity of pollinator groups and species found in urban areas, research often focus on bees, neglecting other groups. Whether bee response to urbanization suffice in repr...

O livro "Jardim para Polinizadores" surgiu com o objetivo de integrar o conhecimento acadêmico em Conservação e Biologia da Polinização ao engajamento da comunidade, visando tornar as áreas verdes urbanas mais amigáveis para os polinizadores. Desenvolvido como parte de uma pesquisa, o livro resultou de um trabalho colaborativo que envolveu a contri...

The diversity of plant-pollinator relationships is crucial in terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the extensive literature on pollination, research is still skewed towards temperate regions, specific plant lineages and pollinator groups, leading to biogeographic and taxonomic biases. We systematically reviewed the diversity of plant-pollinator interact...

Pollen grains from different plants potentially compete for ovule access because flowers produce many more pollen grains than ovules. Pollen competition could occur on pollinators, where there is finite space for pollen placement. Here, we explore the explosive pollen deposition in Hypenea macrantha (Lamiaceae) and determine whether it can improve...

Anthropogenic activities such as mining, industry, urban waste production, and the overuse of agricultural inputs may result in the contamination of the environment by heavy metals, which are toxic to organisms mainly due to their potential to accumulate in tissues. This contamination causes the simplification of aquatic and edaphic food webs, whic...

1. We describe the diverse community of insect herbivores and parasitoids associated with the seeds and fruits of three sympatric Fabaceae species in Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Inga vera, Senna multijuga and Leucaena leucocephala. 2. A total of 5353 individual insects, representing 77 different species, were identified via morphology and DNA bar...

We describe the diverse community of insect herbivores and parasitoids associated with the seeds and fruits of three sympatric Fabaceae species in Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Inga vera , Senna multijuga and Leucaena leucocephala . A total of 5353 individual insects, representing 77 different species, were identified via morphology and DNA barcodi...

Studies have shown that fruits of plants from the Fabaceae family harbour a diverse community of herbivorous insects and their natural enemies. Despite this observation, we still lack information on the specific interactions within these multi‐trophic communities. Herein, we describe the food web of insects associated with fruits and seeds of Leuca...

Urbanization affects the occurrence, abundance and distribution of pollinators worldwide. Although urban green spaces support many pollinators, global estimates of urban pollinator diversity are still lacking. Here, we present a global overview of urban pollinators, characterizing the most frequently recorded species and functional groups, as well...

Street trees integrate the urban green infrastructure and are important elements for the maintenance of biodiversity, including pollinators. Thus, assessments of the spatiotemporal distribution and composition of these trees can subsidize strategies of conservation for different groups of pollinators in the cities. Here, we evaluated the spatiotemp...

In ecology, dealing with sample design is a constant challenge, especially in interaction networks, where most studies suffer from undersampling. Different sampling methods are used in interaction networks, from continuous observations over time to observations at the peak of flowering of plants. However, species richness and abundance vary crucial...

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In...