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This book offers a clear and comprehensive overview of pollinators and their vital role in ecosystems. It explores how pollinators, such as bees and other insects, interact with plants and help maintain biodiversity, food production, and ecological balance.
Covering a wide range of topics, the book discusses the behavior, diversity, and ecological functions of pollinators in both wild and cultivated landscapes. It also highlights the effects of climate change, habitat shifts, and human interventions on pollinator populations. The content combines insights from bioecology, conservation, agriculture, and sustainable practices such as beekeeping, offering a multidisciplinary approach to pollinator research.
This book is a valuable resource for ecologists, researchers, students, conservationists, and policymakers. It is essential for anyone interested in gaining knowledge on sustaining ecosystems through pollinator health and conservation.
Contents
Part I: Bio ecology and Behaviour of Pollinators.- Chapter 1. Bio-Ecology and Utilization of Nomia for Pollination.- Chapter 2. Bio-ecology, Threats, and Conservation of Honey Bee, Apis dorsata in Tropical Wild and Cultivated Ecosystems.- Chapter 3. Plant Pollinator: Relationship based on Morphology and Physiology.- Chapter 4. Behaviour and Ecology of Pollinators- Focus on Honey Bees.- Chapter 5. Nest Variation, Foraging Preference and Host Plant Range of Genus Apis Bees from Karnataka, South India.- Chapter 6. Abiotic Stress and Physiological Changes in Flowers can Mediate the Pollinator Behavior.- Part II: Pollinators in the Wild and Managed Ecosystems.- Chapter 7. Impact of climate change on Insect pollinators of crops in cultivated Ecosystems in Tropics and sub tropics.- Chapter 8. Impact of Pollination of Bumble Bees and the Productivity of Polyhouse Crops.- Chapter 9. Pollination Entomology in West Coast Mangroves of South India.- Chapter 10. Diversity, Abundance and Efficiency of Insect Pollinators of Avocado, Rambutan and Litchi.- Chapter 11. Enhancement of Crop Productivity through Bee Pollination in Pomegranate (Punica Granatum L.).- Chapter 12. Bee Pollinators of Medicinal Plants.- Chapter 13. Dynamics of Pest complex, Natural Enemies and Pollinators of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill in Tropics.- Chapter 14. Pollinators in Tropical Forests.- Part III: Pollinator Conservation Strategies.- Chapter 15. Utilization and Conservation of Insect Pollinators in Commercial Flower Crops in Tropics and Sub tropics.- Chapter 16. Pollinators in Fruit and Vegetable Cultivated Ecosystems: Diversity, Climate driven shifts and Conservation Strategies.- Chapter 17. Non-Apis Pollinators - Role and Conservation.- Chapter 18. Pollination and Pollinators of Cultivated and Wild Flowering Plants.- Chapter 19. Conservation and Augmentation of Indigenous Bumblebee Bombus haemorrhoidalis Smith in Cultivated Ecosystems.- Part IV: Pollinators and Livelihoods.- Chapter 20. Development of Meliponine Culture in Cultivated Ecosystems.- Chapter 21. Honey bees in Asia: Current Status as Pollinators and Future Scope.
