Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Kevan, Susan Willis Chan.
• Editors: Kevan, Peter G, 1944-; Willis Chan, Susan
• Contents: Part 1: Understanding pollinators and pollination 1. What is pollination and what are pollinators in agriculture? Lynn Adler, University of Massachusetts, USA 2. Pollination, crop production and agricultural productivity Dino Martins, Princeton University, USA 3. Advances in understanding crop plant-pollinator interactions: optical attractants Ljubisa Stanisavljevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia 4. Advances in understanding crop plant-pollinator interactions: olfactory attractants Philip Stevenson, University of Greenwich, UK 5. The role of wind-pollinated plants in plant-pollinator networks Stephen Murphy, University of Waterloo, Canada Part 2: Threats to pollinators 6. Assessing climate change impacts on pollinators Kit Prendergast, Curtin University/Forrest Foundation, Australia 7. Assessing the impact of disease on pollinators Rob Paxton, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 8. Assessing the impact of pesticides on pollinators Christian Maus, Bayer Bee Care Center, Germany 9. Improving pesticide risk assessment to protect pollinators Daniel Schmehl, Bayer, USA 10. Assessing the impact of introduced species of pollinators on agricultural production Benoit Geslin, IMBE-CNRS/University of Avignon, France Part 3: Promoting pollinators and pollination 11. The role of habitat conservation/restoration in protecting pollinators in agricultural landscapes Stephen Buchmann, University of Arizona/formerly USDA-ARS, USA 12. Altering crop management practices to promote pollinators Jose Franco, USDA-ARS, USA 13. Landscape approaches to promoting pollinators in agriculture Darren Evans, Newcastle University, UK 14. Designing integrated pest management (IPM) programmes to protect pollinators and promote pollination for agricultural productivity Dave Biddinger, Penn State University, USA 15. Entomovectoring/apivectoring: using pollinators to spread biocontrol agents Guy Smagghe, Ghent University, Belgium 16. The use of managed bee populations to provide pollination services Elina Lastro Nino, University of California-Davis, USA 17. The role of habitat gardens in promoting pollinators for farming Gordon Frankie, University of California-Berkeley, USA 18. Improving teaching of pollination ecology in the classroom: theory and practice Carlos Vergara, University of Guelph, Canada
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 571.8642; Pollination; Pollinators; Agricultural ecology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781801461009; 9781801461016; 9781801460996
• Related ISBNs: 9781801460989
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