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Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 1 : Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
| Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 1 : Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Management |
| Autore | Delaplane Keith |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : CAB International, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 recurs en línia (141 pàgines) |
| Disciplina | 571.8642 |
| Soggetto topico |
Pol·linització per insectes
Apicultura Plantes alimentàries - Millora genètica |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics. |
| ISBN |
1-78639-350-6
9781786393517 9781786393500 9781786393494 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author Biography -- Preface to the 2000 Edition -- Preface to the 2021 Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Angiosperms and Bees: The Evolutionary Bases of Crop Pollination -- 1.1 Sex: diversity with Stability -- 1.2 Sex in the Gymnosperms -- 1.3 Flower Morphology and Fertilization -- 1.4 Evolution of the Flower -- 1.5 Coevolution of Animal Pollinators and the Flower -- 1.6 Insect Flower Visitors and the Significance of Bees -- 2 Biology of Bees -- 2.1 Bee Fundamentals -- 2.2 Solitary Bees -- 2.3 Social Bees -- 2.4 A Word About Pollinator Efficacy and its Labels -- 2.5 Effects of Non-Native Bee Species -- 3 What Makes a Good Pollinator? -- 3.1 Pollinator Efficiency -- 3.2 Pollination Performance from the Perspective of the Bee -- 3.3 Pollinator Dependency from the Perspective of the Plant -- 3.3.1 Breeding systems -- 3.3.2 Flower and fruit morphology -- 3.4 Pollinator Performance from the Perspective of Foraging Ecology -- 3.4.1 Theoretical foundations -- 3.4.2 Taxon-based differences in bee flight distance -- 3.4.3 Morphological considerations -- 3.4.4 Forager behaviour in rich and poor habitats -- 4 Economic and Ecosystem Benefits of Bee Pollination -- 4.1 Worldwide Production Trends for Bee-Pollinated Crops -- 4.2 Quality Properties Distinctive to Bee-Pollinated Crops -- 4.3 Value of Optimizing Pollination in Bee-Pollinated Crops -- 4.4 Efforts at Valuing Bee Pollination Across Geographic Scales -- 4.4.1 Economic value of insect pollination -- 4.4.2 Attributable net income -- 4.4.3 Replacement value -- 4.4.4 Consumer surplus -- 4.4.5 Computable general equilibrium -- 4.4.6 Higher-order dependence -- 4.4.7 Stated preference or willingness to pay -- 4.5 Other Ecosystem Services Provided by Bees -- 5 State of the World's Bee Pollinators and the Consequences for Crop Pollination.
5.1 Bee Decline: Evidence Over Hyperbole -- 5.2 Bee Decline Examined -- 5.2.1 Interactions between landscape alteration and agricultural intensification -- 5.2.2 Interactions between landscape alteration and non-native species -- 5.2.3 Interactions between pathogens and managed bees -- 5.2.4 Interactions between artefacts of agricultural intensification -- 5.2.4.1 Nutrient stress -- 5.2.4.2 Pesticides and other agrochemicals -- 5.2.4.3 Pathogen on pathogen interactions -- 5.2.4.4 Direct effects of agricultural intensification on bee pathogens -- 5.2.5 Interactions between climate change, landscape alteration and agricultural intensification -- 5.3 Modelled Predictions of Bee Decline -- 5.4 Bee Decline and Impacts on Pollination -- 5.4.1 Pollination deficit from sick bees -- 5.4.2 Pollination deficit from bee shortage -- 6 Applied Bee Conservation -- 6.1 Natural Bee Habitats -- 6.2 Restored Bee Habitats -- 6.2.1 Plant lists -- 6.2.2 Importance of season-long bloom -- 6.2.3 Importance of native perennials as bee pasture plants -- 6.2.4 Importance of age and diversity of restorative plantings -- 7 Honeybees: Their Biology, Culture and Management for Pollination -- 7.1 Bee Colony and Beekeeper Demographics -- 7.2 Honeybee Biology -- 7.3 Honeybees as Pollinators -- 7.3.1 Synergies with other bee species -- 7.3.2 Africanized honeybees and pollination -- 7.4 Simplified Beekeeping for Pollination -- 7.4.1 Basic hive parts and configuration -- 7.4.2 Other required beekeeping equipment -- 7.4.3 Buying colonies -- 7.4.4 Installing package bees -- 7.4.5 Minimum hive management -- 7.5 Managing Honeybees for Pollination -- 7.5.1 A good pollinating hive -- 7.5.2 Moving hives -- 7.5.3 Timing -- 7.5.4 Irrigation and bee activity -- 7.5.5 Recommended bee densities -- 7.5.6 Hive placement -- 7.5.7 Non-crop or 'competing' bloom -- 7.5.8 Pollen or biocontrol dispensers. 7.5.9 Pollen traps -- 7.5.10 Honeybee attractants -- 8 Bumble Bees: Their Biology, Culture and Management for Pollination -- 8.1 The Genus Bombus -- 8.2 Bumble Bee Biology -- 8.3 Bumble Bees as Pollinators -- 8.4 Conserving Wild Bumble Bees -- 8.5 Rearing Bumble Bees -- 8.5.1 Hiving colonies from the field -- 8.5.2 Providing artificial nesting sites in the field -- 8.5.3 Rearing bumble bees year-round -- 8.5.3.1 Honeybees as a source of pollen and surrogate workers -- 8.5.3.2 The queen starter box -- 8.5.3.3 The finisher box -- 8.5.3.4 Ambient rearing conditions -- 8.5.3.5 Feeding colonies in captivity -- 8.5.3.6 Catching queens and initiating nests -- 8.5.3.7 Graduating incipient colonies to finisher boxes -- 8.5.3.8 Graduating colonies into pollination units -- 8.5.3.9 Mating queens and inducing incubation -- 8.5.3.10 Activating second-generation queens -- 8.6 Managing Hived Bumble Bees for Pollination -- 8.6.1 Managing bumble bees in the field -- 8.6.2 Managing bumble bees in the greenhouse -- 9 Managed Solitary Bees -- 9.1 Alfalfa Leafcutting Bees -- 9.1.1 Biology -- 9.1.2 Alfalfa leafcutting bees as pollinators -- 9.1.3 Recommended bee densities -- 9.1.4 Rearing and managing alfalfa leafcutting bees -- 9.1.4.1 Cold storage and incubation -- 9.1.4.2 Nesting materials and shelters -- 9.1.4.3 Loose-cell rearing system -- 9.1.4.4 Solid wood/phaseout rearing system -- 9.1.4.5 Alfalfa leafcutting bee enemies -- 9.2 Alkali Bees -- 9.2.1 Biology -- 9.2.2 Alkali bees as pollinators -- 9.2.3 Recommended bee densities -- 9.2.4 Qualities of good nesting sites -- 9.2.4.1 Soil moisture -- 9.2.4.2 Soil composition and texture -- 9.2.4.3 Vegetation -- 9.2.5 Building or enhancing bee beds -- 9.2.5.1 Natural/semi-natural (open-ditched) beds -- 9.2.5.2 Semi-artificial (pipeline) beds -- 9.2.5.3 Artificial (plastic-lined) beds -- 9.2.6 Surface moisture. 9.2.7 Late-season moisture -- 9.2.8 Surface salting -- 9.2.9 Vegetation management -- 9.2.10 Attracting and establishing bees -- 9.3 Orchard Mason Bees -- 9.3.1 Biology -- 9.3.2 Orchard mason bees as pollinators -- 9.3.3 Rearing and managing orchard mason bees -- 10 Wild Bees -- 10.1 Wild Bees as Pollinators -- 10.2 Drivers of Wild Bee Abundance and Pollination Performance at Crops -- 11 Stingless Bees, Tribe Meliponini -- 11.1 Stingless Bee Biology -- 11.2 Stingless Bees as Pollinators -- 11.3 Meliponiculture -- References -- Index -- Back. |
| Altri titoli varianti |
Crop pollination by bees
Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 1 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910760490103321 |
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| Oxford : , : CAB International, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Entomovectoring for Precision Biocontrol and Enhanced Pollination of Crops / / edited by Guy Smagghe, Otto Boecking, Bettina Maccagnani, Marika Mänd, Peter G. Kevan
| Entomovectoring for Precision Biocontrol and Enhanced Pollination of Crops / / edited by Guy Smagghe, Otto Boecking, Bettina Maccagnani, Marika Mänd, Peter G. Kevan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) |
| Disciplina | 582.01662 |
| Soggetto topico |
Entomology
Agriculture Plant diseases Plant Pathology Pol·linització per insectes Patologia vegetal Control de plagues |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-18917-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1.Agroecosystem design supports the activity of pollinator networks -- 2. Ecological Intensification: Managing Biocomplexity and Biodiversity in Agriculture through Pollinators, Pollination and Deploying Biocontrol Agents against Crop and Pollinator Diseases, Pests, and Parasites -- 3. Bee pollination of crops: a natural and cost-free ecological service -- 4. Solitary bees as pollinators -- 5. Bumble bees and entomovectoring in open field conditions -- 6. Dispensers for entomovectoring: for every bee another type? -- 7. Cases on entomovectoring in the greenhouse and open field -- 8. A case study: Use of Prestop® Mix biofungicide in entomovectoring on apple against storage rot diseases -- 9. Threat of Drosophila suzukii as an invasive species and the potential of entomovectoring -- 10.The potential of bee vectoring in coffee in Brazil -- 11. Using bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) as bioagent vectors to control Sclerotinia head rot on sunflower in Serbia -- 12. Advances in the implementation of Beevector Technologi in Colombia: Strawberry case (Fragaria X ananassa) -- 13-Making a pest beneficial: Fungus gnats [Bradysia impatiens (Diptera: Sciaridea)] as potential vectors of microbial control agents to suppress pathogens they also spread -- 14. Regulatory processes surrounding the risk assessment of microbial pesticides for pollinators -- 15. Flying Doctors for a better quality in fruit production. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910409686903321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pol·linització per insectes
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