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Title Improving the health of honey bees and other pollinators : national strategy and research action plan / Christina L. Evans, editor
Published New York : Nova Publishers, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Insects and other terrestrial arthropods: biology, chemistry and behavior series
Insects and other terrestrial arthropods--biology, chemistry and behavior series.
Summary 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 countrys 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 nations 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.-- Source other than Library of Congress
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Honeybee -- Health -- Government policy -- United States
Honeybee -- Conservation -- Government policy -- United States
Pollinators -- Health -- Government policy -- United States
Pollinators -- Conservation -- Government policy -- United States
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
Colony collapse disorder of honeybees
United States
Genre/Form Periodicals
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019714296
ISBN 9781634843850
1634843851