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Bumblebees - Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Bumblebees - Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring
throughout much of the world. They are increasingly being used as a
model organism for studying a wide range of ecological and
behavioural concepts, such as social organization, optimal foraging
theories, host-parasite interactions, and pollination. Recently
they have become a focus for conservationists due to mounting
evidence of range contractions and catastrophic extinctions with
some species disappearing from entire continents (e.g. in North
America). Only by improving our understanding of their ecology can
we devise sensible plans to conserve them. The role of bumblebees
as invasive species (e.g. Bombus terrestris in Japan) has also
become topical with the growing trade in commercial bumblebee nests
for tomato pollination leading to establishment of non-native
bumblebees in a number of countries.
Since the publication of the first edition of the book, there have
been hundreds of research papers published on bumblebees. There is
clearly a continuing need for an affordable, well-illustrated, and
appealing text that makes accessible all of the major advances in
understanding of the behaviour and ecology of bumblebees that have
been made in the last 30 years.
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