▪ Abstract The pollination of flowering plants by animals represents a critical ecosystem
service of great value to humanity, both monetary and otherwise. However, the need for …

▪ Abstract Invasions by non-native ants are an ecologically destructive phenomenon
affecting both continental and island ecosystems throughout the world. Invasive ants often …

The highly social (eusocial) corbiculate bees, comprising the honey bees, bumble bees, and
stingless bees, are ubiquitous insect pollinators that fulfill critical roles in ecosystem services …

▪ Abstract Bees are generally regarded as beneficial insects for their role in pollination, and
in the case of the honeybee Apis mellifera, for production of honey. As a result several bee …

É com grande satisfação que abro as páginas deste trabalho que vem facilitar o estudo da
nossa riquíssima apifauna. Merecem os maiores elogios o Ministério do Meio Ambiente e a …

Pollination by insects is an essential service for the conservation of plant biodiversity, since it
increases the rate of fertilization of flowers and therefore increases the quality and quantity …

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the
female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural …

More than a century ago, Dar-win (lg59) observed that" the number of bumblebees in any
district depends in a great measure upon the number of fieldmice, which destroy their combs …

In subtropical dry forest (Chaco Serrano) of Tucuman province, northwestern Argentina, we
assessed responses of the flower—visitor assemblage to habitat fragmentation by …

▪ Abstract Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are broadly interested in how the
interactions among organisms influence their abundance, distribution, phenotypes, and …