Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology
| Autor: | Patricia Vit, Silvia R.M. Pedro, David W. Roubik |
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| EAN: | 9783319618395 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.03.2018 |
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| Schlagworte: | Conservation Biology Entomology Ethnopharmacology Food Chemistry Food Science Meliponini Sociobiology South America beekeeping honey pot-pollen stingless bee |
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This book covers pot-pollen-the other product, besides honey, stored in cerumen pots by Meliponini. Critical assessment is given of stingless bee and pot-pollen biodiversity in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Topics addressed include historical biogeography, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, pollination, ecological interactions, health applications, microbiology, the natural history of bee nests, and chemical, bioactive and individual plant components in stored pollen.
Pot-pollen maintains the livelihoods of stingless bees and provides many interesting biological products that are just now beginning to be understood. The Meliponini have developed particular nesting biologies, uses of building materials, and an architecture for pollen storage. Environmental windows provide optimal temperature and availability of pollen sources for success in plant pollination and pollen storage. Palynological composition and pollen taxonomy are used to assess stingless honey bee pollination services. Pollen processing with microorganisms in the nest modifies chemical composition and bioactivity, and confers nutraceutical benefits to the honey and pollen widely relished by native people. Humans have always used stingless bees. Yet, sustainable meliponiculture (stingless bee-keeping) projects have so far lacked a treatise on pot-pollen, which experts provide in this transdisciplinary, groundbreaking volume.
Professor Patricia Vit, MSc PhD
Universidad de Los Andes
Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis
Food Science Department
Mérida, Venezuela
The Sydney University
Cancer Research Group
Discipline of Biomedical Science
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Silvia R.M. Pedro
Universidade de São Paulo
School of Philosophy, Sciences and LiteratureBiology Department
Brasil
Dr. David W. Roubik
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteTerrestrial Biology Division
Entomology Department
Panama
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