
Environmental Threats to Pollinator Health and Fitness
- 1st Edition, Volume 64 - May 12, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Jon Harrison
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 4 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 5 0 - 6
Environmental Threats to Pollinator Health and Fitness, Volume 64 in the Advances in Insect Physiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presen… Read more

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Request a sales quoteEnvironmental Threats to Pollinator Health and Fitness, Volume 64 in the Advances in Insect Physiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including The threat of higher temperatures to pollinating insects, The challenge of balancing fungicide use and pollinator health, Insecticide effects on pollinating insects, Effects of invasive pathogens and parasites on pollinating insects, Heavy metal pollutants: the hidden pervasive threat to honey bees and other pollinators, Honey bee nutritional ecology: from physiology to landscapes, and more.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter One: How will climatic warming affect insect pollinators?
- Abstract
- 1: Overview
- 2: Insect pollinators face a warmer future with more extremes
- 3: Linking weather and climate to insect pollinator body temperatures
- 4: Mechanisms of avoiding overheating for individual insect pollinators
- 5: Avoiding overheating by increasing evaporative heat loss
- 6: Mechanisms to avoid overheating: Life stage effects
- 7: Nest thermoregulation of social pollinators
- 8: Regulation of nest temperatures in non-social pollinators
- 9: Direct effects of body temperature on insect pollinator physiology and performance
- 10: Will plasticity and rapid evolution rescue pollinators from heat?
- 11: The role of phylogeny in determining effects of climate warming on pollinators
- 12: Indirect effects of climate warming on pollinating insects
- 13: Interactions between thermal effects and other ongoing effects of the Anthropocene
- 14: Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two: The challenge of balancing fungicide use and pollinator health
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: A historical perspective on fungicides and their regulation
- 3: Fungicide classification and mode of action
- 4: How and at what concentrations are pollinators exposed to fungicides?
- 5: At what concentrations are fungicides toxic to insect pollinators?
- 6: Mechanisms of action of fungicides on insect pollinators
- 7: Behaviourally and socially-mediated effects of fungicides
- 8: Behavioural avoidance, metabolism, excretion, and detoxification of fungicides by pollinators
- 9: Interactive effects on survival and behaviour between fungicides and other pesticides
- 10: Interactions between fungicides and disease
- 11: Phytochemicals and fungicides
- 12: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Three: How do neonicotinoids affect social bees? Linking proximate mechanisms to ecological impacts
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Linking individual effects to colony outcomes
- 3: Direct effects of neonicotinoids on individual bees
- 4: Colony-level effects of neonicotinoid exposure
- 5: Evidence for the allometry of sensitivity
- 6: Conclusions and future directions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Four: Heavy metal pollutants: The hidden pervasive threat to honey bees and other pollinators
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Heavy metal toxicity
- 3: Heavy metal pollution of ecosystems
- 4: Honey bee exposure to heavy metal pollutants
- 5: Heavy metal contamination in beehives
- 6: Heavy metal pollutants in the insect body
- 7: The physiological and behavioural impacts of heavy metal pollutants on bees and other insect pollinators
- 8: Field evidence for impacts of heavy metal pollutants
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Five: Honey bee nutritional ecology: From physiology to landscapes
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Nutritional needs
- 3: Food processing and storage
- 4: Food consumption and social organization
- 5: Individual preferences
- 6: Effects of poor nutrition and interactions with other stressors
- 7: Nutrition biomarkers
- 8: Nutritional needs: Future directions
- 9: Environmental threats to honey bee nutrition
- 10: Mitigation
- 11: Environmental threats: Future directions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 64
- Published: May 12, 2023
- No. of pages (Hardback): 356
- No. of pages (eBook): 356
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443132490
- eBook ISBN: 9780443132506
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Jon Harrison
Jon Harrison works at the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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