Häftad, 318 sidor.
Andra upplagan 2010, reprinted 2012.
Monografi över humlorna. 8 färgplanscher, 30 svartvita illustrationer.
Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occuring throughout much of the world. They are increasingly being used as a model organism for studying a wide range of ecological and behavioural cioncepts, such as social organization, optimal foraging theories, host-parasite interactions, and pollination. Recently theu have become a focus for conservationists due to mounting evidence of range contractions and catastrophic extinctions with some species disappearing from entire continents (e.g.in North America). Only by improving our understanding of their ecology can we devise sensible plansto conservate them. The role of bumlebees as ivasive species (e.g. Bombus terrestris in Japan) hasalso become topical with the groving trade in commercial bumblebee nests for tomato pollination leading to the establishment of non-native bumlebees in a number of countries.
Since the publication of the first edition of the book, there have been hundreds of research paperspublished on bumlebees. There is clearly a continuing need for an affordable, well-illustrated, andappealing text that makes accessible all of the major advances in understanding of the behaviour andecology of bumlebees that have been made in the last 30 years. Bumlebees is aimed at students, researchers, and interested amateurs. Technical jargon has been kept to a minimum and sufficient background information given to enable anyone to follow the text without difficulty.
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