Bee Pollination in Agricultural Ecosystems (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: James, Rosalind; Pitts-Singer, Theresa L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture and the environment. Both managed and wild bees are critical for successful pollination of numerous fruit, vegetable, oilseed and legume seed crops and are considered here. So is treatment of how bees also impact the agro-ecosystem in ways beyond simple pollination, such as by transporting pollen from genetically modified plants and by enhancing biological control strategies. The principles and examples are international. The concept is in line with current thinking of pollination as an important ecological process, and an understanding of agriculture as disturbance ecology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190295554
• Artikelnr.: 42676302

Autorenporträt

Rosalind R. James is Research Leader of the USDA Agricultural Research Services Pollinating Insect Biology, Systematics, and Management Research Unit in Logan, Utah. Theresa L. Pitts-Singer is a Research Entomologist in the USDA Agricultural Research Services Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Chris OToole
* SECTION 1: BEES AS POLLINATORS AND MORE IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS
* Chapter 1 - Introduction: Bees in Nature and on the Farm (Theresa L.
Pitts-Singer and Rosalind R. James)
* Chapter 2 - Crop Pollination Services from Wild Bees (Claire Kremen)
* Chapter 3 - Crop Pollination in Greenhouses (José M. Guerra-Sanz)
* Chapter 4 - Pollinating-Bees Crucial to Farming Wildflower Seed for
U.S. Habitat Restoration (James H. Cane)
* Chapter 5 - Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Biocontrol: New Alliances
Between Old Friends (Peter G. Kevan, Jean-Pierre Kapongo, Mohammad
Al-mazraawi, and Les Shipp)
* SECTION 2: MANAGING SOLITARY BEES
* Chapter 6 - Ecophysiology of the Life Cycle in Osmia Mason Bees Used
as Crop Pollinators (Jordi Bosch, Fabio Sgolastra, William P. Kemp)
* Chapter 7 - Past and Present Management of Alfalfa Bees (Theresa L.
Pitts-Singer)
* Chapter 8 - The Problem of Disease When Domesticating Bees (Rosalind
R. James)
* SECTION 3: ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH BEES
* Chapter 9 - Environmental Impact of Exotic Bees Introduced for Crop
Pollination (Carlos H. Vergara)
* Chapter 10 - Invasive Exotic Plant-Bee Interactions (Karen Goodell)
* Chapter 11 - Estimating the Potential for Bee-Mediated Gene Flow in
Genetically-Modified (GM) Crops (James E. Cresswell)
* Chapter 12 - Genetically Modified Crops: Effects on Bees and
Pollination (Lora A. Morandin)
* Chapter 13 - The Future of Agricultural Pollination (Rosalind James
and Theresa Pitts-Singer)