Forgotten Pollinators

Name: Forgotten Pollinators
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ISBN: 9781559633536

ISBN-10: 1559633530

ISBN-13: 9781559633536

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Stephen L. Buchmann, Gary Paul Nabhan, Paul Mirocha, Gary Paul Nabhan

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'Forgotten Pollinators' looks at the human impact on plants and the animals they depend upon for reproduction. As an increasing number of species are erased by pesticides or habitat disruption 80% of the human diet is threatened.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 6/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Remembering the Pollinators



Silent Springs and Fruitless Falls: The Impending Pollination Crisis



Flowers: Waiting for Their Ships to Come In



Pollinators: Waiting for the Bait to Pervade the Air



The Perils of Matchmaking: Pollination of Syndromes and Plant/Pollinator Landscapes



Bees in the Bestiary, Bats in the Belfry: A Menagerie of Pollinators



Fractured Fairy Tales: Disruptions in Fragmented Habitats



Need Nectar, Will Travel: Threats to Migratory Pollinators



Holding the Globe in Our Hands: The Relentless Pressures on Plants Pollinators



Keepers of the Flame: Honey Hunters and Beekeepers from Ancient to Present Times



New Bee on the Block: Competition Between Honeybees and Native Pollinators



The Little Lives Keeping Crops Fruitful: The Economics of Pollination



Cultivating Lasting Relationships: Pollinator Gardens and Ecological Restoration


Bibliography


Glossary


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


Index