- Bib ID:
- 89946
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Buchmann, Stephen L
- Description:
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- Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c1996
- xx, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1559633522 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Edward O. Wilson
- Introduction: Remembering the Pollinators
- 1. Silent Springs and Fruitless Falls: The Impending Pollination Crisis
- 2. Flowers: Waiting for Their Ships to Come In
- 3. Pollinators: Waiting for the Bait to Pervade the Air
- 4. The Perils of Matchmaking: Pollination of Syndromes and Plant/Pollinator Landscapes
- 5. Bees in the Bestiary, Bats in the Belfry: A Menagerie of Pollinators
- 6. Fractured Fairy Tales: Disruptions in Fragmented Habitats
- 7. Need Nectar, Will Travel: Threats to Migratory Pollinators
- 8. Holding the Globe in Our Hands: The Relentless Pressures on Plants Pollinators
- 9. Keepers of the Flame: Honey Hunters and Beekeepers from Ancient to Present Times
- 10. New Bee on the Block: Competition Between Honeybees and Native Pollinators
- 11. The Little Lives Keeping Crops Fruitful: The Economics of Pollination
- 12. Cultivating Lasting Relationships: Pollinator Gardens and Ecological Restoration.
- App. 1. A Call for a National Policy on Pollination
- App. 2. Pollinators of the Major Crop Plants
- App. 3. Conservation and Research Organizations
- App. 4. Sources
- App. 5. Pollination Classes for the World's Wild Flowering Plants
- App. 6. Common Agricultural Pesticides.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Copyright:
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