A UTILIZAÇÃO DAS MACRÓFITAS AQUÁTICAS PELA SOCIEDADE: UMA REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA

Abstract

Aquatic ecosystems are vitally important for ecological balance and climate stability. Aquatic macrophytes are vascular plants that occupy from waterlogged areas to completely flooded areas and have lately been representing an important place in society, as they present several benefits that human beings can use in their daily lives. Thus, this work aims to understand the benefits that aquatic macrophytes can offer to society, through an analysis of published works, in order to demonstrate the advantages that these plants can bring through their various forms of use. In this sense, the digital database platforms were used, in which the following descriptors were included in the abstract: Aquatic macrophytes, life forms, adaptive structures, aquatic plants, aquatic herbaceous plants, floristic survey and variants in English. Thirty-five scientific works were analyzed, from which 20 were selected. The analysis of the data obtained indicated that the journals published scientific articles on the use of aquatic macrophytes, in the period from 2004 to 2020. The results indicated that not only in Brazil, but that in several countries there are many studies on aquatic macrophytes showing that they can offer many benefits to society, including: Aquatic macrophytes, aquatic macrophytes as medicinal plants, aquatic macrophytes in carcinoculture, aquatic macrophytes as depolluters, aquatic macrophytes as fertilizers aquatic macrophytes such as PANC's, aquatic macrophytes such as forages, helping the economy, human and animal food and nutrition issues and also helping in folk medicine. Thus, it is of fundamental importance that studies on the use of aquatic macrophytes for the benefit of society and human beings advance and gain greater notoriety, thus helping with information on this topic for science.