Improving the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators: National Strategy and Research Action Plan

$210.00

Christina L. Evans

Series: Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods: Biology, Chemistry and Behavior
BISAC: NAT017000

Wherever flowering plants flourish, pollinating bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and other animals are hard at work, providing vital but often unnoticed services. But many pollinators are in serious decline in the United States and worldwide. Preventing continued losses of our country’s pollinators requires immediate national attention, as pollinators play a critical role in maintaining diverse ecosystems and in supporting agricultural production.

Some three-fourths of all native plants in the world require pollination by an animal, most often an insect, and most often a native bee. Pollinators, most often honey bees, are also responsible for one in every three bites of food we take, and increase our nation’s crop values each year by more than 15 billion dollars. Unabated, these losses of our pollinators threaten agricultural production, the maintenance of natural plant communities, and the important services provided by those ecosystems, such as carbon cycling, flood and erosion control, and recreation. This book discusses national strategies and research action plans to improve the health of honey bees and other pollinators.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators
(Pollinator Health Task Force)

Appendices to National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators
(Pollinator Health Task Force)

Pollinator Research Action Plan
(Pollinator Health Task Force)

Presidential Memorandum: Creating a Federal Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators
(President Barack Obama)

Fact Sheet: The Economic Challenge Posed by Declining Pollinator Populations
(Office of the Press Secretary)

Index

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