Pollinating
Bees - The Conservation Link Between Agriculture and Nature
Peter
Kevan and Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca (eds) - Ministry of Environment
/ Brasília, 313p. 2002.
FOREWORD
SESSION
I - The Main Issues In Pollinator and Bee Conservation
SESSION
II - The State of the Art in Bee Conservation for Agriculture
and Nature
6.
Williams,
I.H. "Insect Pollination and Crop Production: a European
Perspective".
7. Ruijter,
A. de "Pollinator Diversity and Sustainable Agriculture in
the Netherlands".
8. Berezin,
M.V. and Beiko, V. B. "Problems of Conservation and Sustainable
use of Native Bees in Russia".
9. Richards,
K.W. & Kevan, P.G. "Aspects of Bee Diversity, Crop Pollination
and Conservation in Canada"
10. Donaldson,
J.S. "Pollination in Agricultural Landscapes, a South African
Perspective"
11. Eardley,
C. "Afrotropical Bees Now: What Next?"
12. Pinheiro-Machado,
C. et al. "Brazilian Bee Surveys: State of Knowledge, Conservation
and Sustainable Use".
13. Martins,
C. "Diversity of the Bee Fauna of the Brazilian Caatinga".
14. Viana,
B.F. and Alves dos Santos, I. "Bee Diversity of the Coastal
Sand Dunes of Brazil".
15. Ruz, L.
"Bee Pollinators Introduced to Chile: a Review".
16. Vergara,
C.V. "Diversity and Abundance of Wild Bees in a Mixed Fruit
Orchard in Central Mexico".
17. Velthuis,
H.H.W. "The Historical Background of the Domestication of
the Bumble-Bee Bombus terrestris and its Introduction in
Agriculture"
SESSION
III - Methodology for Pollinator Diversity and Abundance
SESSION
IV - Neotropical Crop Pollination
27.
Aizen, M. "Habitat fragmentation, pollinator decline, and
plant pollination"
28. Ayala, R. "Bee diversity in Mexico"
29. Buchmann, S. "Estimation, conservation and sustainable
uses of native bees for pollination of agricultural and wildland
plants in the United States, with implications for the tropics"
30. Dafni, A. "Fire, Bombus terrestris, invasion and
the threat to solitary bee diversity in a Mediterranean ecosystem"
31. Raw, A.; Boaventura, M.C. and Freitas, G.S. "The diversity
of a bee fauna: the species of the cerrados of Central Brazil"
SESSION
VI
International
Pollinators Initiative: The Sao Paulo Declaration (Principle Results
And Proposals For Action)
[ excerpts from " Report on the recommendations of the Workshop
on the conservation and sustainable use of Pollinators in Agriculture
with Emphasis on bees" .Brazilian Ministry of Environment,
Brasilia, December 1999.]
LIST
OF CONTRIBUTORS
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