Evaluation of agroecosystems environmental quality through the analysis of diversity Euglossini bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Abstract

The management of agroecosystems often remove the native vegetation and apply agricultural
inputs, promoting habitat fragmentation, environment intoxication, biodiversity and ecosystems
services loss. Bioindicators organisms that also realized ecosystems services, are useful to
evaluate how agricultural production affect both natural and anthropic ecosystems. This study
approached Euglossini bees as bioindicators of environment quality of agroecosystems in two
sites, the first, Mariana rural resettlement, that adopt practices that preserv the agrobiodiversity,
and the second, Flor da Serra Resettlement, that use conventional practices. The Mariana
resettlement had a bigger diversity that Flor da Serra, and the biggest environment quality in
the naturals environments, like the Riparian Vegetation.