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Environmental Threats to Pollinator Health and Fitness

  • 1st Edition, Volume 64 - May 12, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jon Harrison
  • Language: English

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

Description

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 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.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in the Advances in Insect Physiology series
  • Updated release includes the latest information on the Environmental Threats to Pollinator Health and Fitness

Readership

Organismal biologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, for both researchers and students

Table of contents

1. The threat of higher temperatures to pollinating insects
Jon Harrison, Michael Dillon , Jordan Glass, Meredith Johnson

2. The challenge of balancing fungicide use and pollinator health
Adrian Fisher II, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Ling-Hsiu Liao, Rafaela Tadei, and Jon F. Harrison

3. Insecticide effects on pollinating insects
James Crall and Nigel Raine

4. Effects of invasive pathogens and parasites on pollinating insects
Jay Evans, Kirsten Traynor, Marla Spivak

5. Heavy metal pollutants: the hidden pervasive threat to honey bees and other pollinators
Coline Monchanin, Christina Burden, Andrew B. Barron, Brian H. Smith

6. Honey bee nutritional ecology: from physiology to landscapes
Gabriela Quinlan and Christina Grozinger

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 64
  • Published: May 12, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

JH

Jon Harrison

Jon Harrison works at the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

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