Phenological studies assist in forest ecosystems comprehension and evaluation of resource availability for wildlife, as well as in improving the understanding of relationships between plants and their pollinators and dispersers. This study aims to describe the reproductive phenophases of riparian plant species and correlate them with climatic variables. The reproductive phenology was analyzed biweekly throughout one year, recording the absence or presence of flowers/fruits. The flowering phenophase occurred throughout the year, with an increase in number of species in blossom in October, November, and December. The flowering peak of the community was observed in November. The fruiting phenophase also occurred throughout the year and showed an increase of species fruiting in June with a slight decrease in August and September. The data obtained in this study, when compared with other studies in different Atlantic Rainforest areas, indicates a seasonal pattern for the flowering phenophase and a variation in fruit availability throughout the year as well as in the fruiting peaks. Therefore, studies that observe flowering and fruiting events in loco are of main importance because they provide information on reproductive seasons of species for use in environmental restoration projects and thus alleviate the situation of degradation of riparian forests.

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Inventários biológicos são importantes ferramentas para o conhecimento da biodiversidade e auxiliam no entendimento das alterações provenientes de processos antrópicos ou naturais. Inventários de comunidades de abelhas são especialmente relevantes e ainda escassos em ambiente de restinga na região sul do Estado de Santa Catarina. Nosso objetivo foi analisar a comunidade de abelhas em área de restinga arbórea no município de Araranguá, extremo sul catarinense.

As aves são afetadas de diversas formas pelas atividades antrópicas, sendo a destruição dos habitats a principal causadora do desequilíbrio. Um fato pouco conhecido, mas extremamente relevante, é a perda desses indivíduos por colisão em estruturas transparentes oriundas de fachadas, painéis ou muros de vidro. O presente trabalho teve por objetivo verificar a ocorrência de choque mecânico de aves em residências com muros de vidro no município litorâneo de Balneário Rincão, Santa Catarina, de modo a avaliar as condições das ocorrências em relação as características físicas da ave, do muro e do entorno, durante 12 meses de pesquisa. No decorrer do projeto foram amostradas, entre coletas e registros fotográficos, um total de 110 carcaças decorrentes das colisões em estruturas de vidro, distribuídas em 12 espécies e 10 famílias, sendo 21 indivíduos não identificados.

Encounters between flowers and invertebrates are key events for the functioning of tropical forests. Assessing the structure of networks composed of the interactions between those partners leads to a better understanding of ecosystem functioning and the effects of environmental factors on ecological processes. Gathering such data is, however, costly and time‐consuming, especially in the highly diverse tropics. We aimed to provide a comprehensive repository of available flower–invertebrate interaction information for the Atlantic Forest, a South American tropical forest domain. Data were obtained from published works and “gray literature,” such as theses and dissertations, as well as self‐reports by co‐authors. The data set has ~18,000 interaction records forming 482 networks, each containing between one and 1061 interaction links. Each network was sampled for about 200 h or less, with few exceptions. A total of 641 plant genera within 136 different families and 39 orders were reported, with the most abundant and rich families being Asteraceae, Fabaceae, and Rubiaceae. Invertebrates interacting with these plants were all arthropods from 10 orders, 129 families, and 581 genera, comprising 2419 morphotypes (including 988 named species). Hymenoptera was the most abundant and diverse order, with at least six times more records than the second‐ranked order (Lepidoptera). The complete data set shows Hymenoptera interacting with all plant orders and also shows Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera to be important nodes. Among plants, Asterales and Fabales had the highest number of interactions. The best sampled environment was forest (~8000 records), followed by pastures and crops. Savanna, grasslands, and urban environments (among others) were also reported, indicating a wide range of approaches dedicated to collecting flower–invertebrate interaction data in the Atlantic Forest domain. Nevertheless, most reported data were from forest understory or lower strata, indicating a knowledge gap about flower–invertebrate interactions at the canopy. Also, access to remote regions remains a limitation, generating sampling bias across the geographical range of the Atlantic Forest. Future studies in these continuous and hard‐to‐access forested areas will yield important new information regarding the interactions between flowers and invertebrates in the Atlantic Forest. There are no copyright restrictions on the data set. Please cite this data paper if the data are used in publications and teaching events.