Overview
Provides reviews, new research, guidelines, and references on diverse topics concerning pollen from the world's leading experts
Investigates controlling factors in the behavior of pollinators returning to their nests, predicting behavior of different stingless bee species
Analyzes the development of artificial diets, management, pest control, and marketing of stingless bee-keeping
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Pollen and the Evolution of Mutualism
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Biodiversity, Behavior and Microorganisms of the Stingless Bees (Meliponini)
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About this book
Pot-pollen maintains the livelihoods of stingless bees and provides many interesting biological products that are just now beginning to be understood. The Meliponini have developed particular nesting biologies, uses of building materials, and an architecture for pollen storage. Environmental windows provide optimal temperature and availability of pollen sources for success in plant pollination and pollen storage. Palynological composition and pollen taxonomy are used to assess stingless honey bee pollination services. Pollen processing with microorganisms in the nest modifies chemical composition and bioactivity, and confers nutraceutical benefits to the honey and pollen widely relished by native people. Humans have always used stingless bees. Yet, sustainable meliponiculture (stingless bee-keeping) projects have so far lacked a treatise on pot-pollen, which experts provide in this transdisciplinary, groundbreaking volume.
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About the editors
Universidad de Los Andes
Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis
Food Science Department
Mérida, Venezuela
The Sydney University
Cancer Research Group
Discipline of Biomedical Science
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Silvia R.M. Pedro
Universidade de São Paulo
School of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature
Biology Department
Brasil
Dr. David W. Roubik
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteTerrestrial Biology DivisionEntomology Department
Panama
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology
Editors: Patricia Vit, Silvia R.M. Pedro, David W. Roubik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61839-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61838-8Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09667-0Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61839-5Published: 05 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 481
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Ecology, Entomology, Food Science, Animal Biochemistry, Animal Physiology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography