Pollination Services to Agriculture: Sustaining and Enhancing a Key Ecosystem Service

New York: Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with Routledge, 2016. Quarto in chiefly purple and green illus wraps; xvii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm; bibliographical references and index. New. Paperback. ISBN: 9781138904408

"It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated. At the same time, the alarming collapse in populations of bees and other pollinators has highlighted the urgency of addressing this issue. This book focuses on the specific measures and practices that the emerging science of pollination ecology is identifying to conserve and promote animal pollinators in agroecosystems. It reviews the expanding knowledge base on pollination services, providing evidence to document the status, trends and importance of pollinators to sustainable agricultural production." —Publisher. Contents: Monitoring pollinators around the world / LeBuhn, Gretchen, et al -- Identifying and assessing pollination deficits in crops / Freitas, Breno M., et al -- Incremental contribution of pollination and other ecosystem services to agricultural productivity: effects of service quantity and quality / Garibaldi, Lucas A., et al -- Adaptation of an economy facing pollinator decline: a prospective analysis from the French case / Gallai, Nicola; Salles, Jean-Michel -- Identification of pollinators: where are we and where should we go? / Packer, Laurence; Ali, Erica; Dumesh, Sheila; Walker, Ken -- Establishing knowledge management systems for ecological interactions: the case of crop pollinators / Carvalheiro, Luísa Gigante, et al -- Indigenous knowledge, local communities and pollination / Roy, Phrang, et al -- Farm-tailored measures to sustain and enhance pollination services / Isaacs, Rufus, et al -- Developing pollination management plans across agricultural landscapes: quo vadis, sustainable crop pollination? / Roubik, David Ward; Gemmill-Herren, Barbara -- Impacts of agrochemical pesticides on bees in intensively cultivated farmland / Cresswell, James E. -- Bumblebee conservation worldwide within the IUCN framework / Spevak, Edward; Jepson, Sarina; Williams, Paul -- Global public awareness of pollination and pollinators: recent trends and dynamics / Martins, Dino J.; Vaughan, Mace; Black, Scott Hoffman -- Developing incentives for farmers to support pollinators: contrasting approaches from Europe and the United States / Dicks, Lynn; Lee-Mäder, Eric, et al -- Value of pollination services and policy: the missing link / Melhim, Almuhanad; Daly, Zach; Weersink, Alfons -- Pollination and evolving global policy processes / Azzu, Nadine; Coates, David; Graub, Benjamin, et al. / Pollination.  Pollinators.  Pollination by bees.  Agricultural ecology.  Pollinisation.  Pollinisateurs.  Pollinisation par les abeilles.  Écologie agricole.