Dave Goulson

Bumblebees

Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation
With: Brown, Mark J.F., Osborne, Juliet L. et al.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a concise and readable summary of the ecology and behaviour of bumblebees, with a particular focus on practical issues such as conservation strategies, management of bumblebees for crop pollination, and the possible impacts of bumblebees as non-native invasive species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 169mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9780199553075
• ISBN-10: 0199553076
• Artikelnr.: 27840516

Autorenporträt

Prof Dave Goulson has had a lifelong interest in insects, having started collecting butterflies as a small boy. After a degree in Biology at Oxford University and a PhD at Oxford Brookes University, he obtained a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1995, where he stayed for 11 years. He is now Professor of Biological Sciences and Head of the School of Biological & Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling. In 2006 he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a membership-based charity devoted to the active promotion of bee conservation in the UK; the trust now has 3,000 members.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Thermoregulation
3: Social Organisation and Conflict
4: Finding a Mate
5: Natural Enemies
6: Foraging Economics
7: Exploitation of Patchy Resources
8: Choice of Flower Species
9: Intraspecific Floral Choices
10: Foraging Cues Gained from Other Bees
11: Competition and Niche Differentiation in Bumblebee Communities
12: Bumblebees as Pollinators
13: Conservation
14: Bumblebees Abroad; Effects of Introduced Bees
References
Index