Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Pollen and the Evolution of Mutualism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Pot-Pollen as a Discipline: What Does It Include?

      • David W. Roubik, Jorge Enrique Moreno Patiño

      Pages 3-15

   3. Are Stingless Bees a Broadly Polylectic Group? An Empirical Study of the Adjustments Required for an Improved Assessment of Pollen Diet in Bees

      • Favio Gerardo Vossler

      Pages 17-28

   4. Pollen Collected by Stingless Bees: A Contribution to Understanding Amazonian Biodiversity

      • Maria L. Absy, André R. Rech, Marcos G. Ferreira

      Pages 29-46

   5. The Stingless Honey Bees (Apidae, Apinae: Meliponini) in Panama and Pollination Ecology from Pollen Analysis

      • David W. Roubik, Jorge Enrique Moreno Patiño

      Pages 47-66

   6. The Value of Plants for the Mayan Stingless Honey Bee Melipona beecheii (Apidae: Meliponini): A Pollen-Based Study in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

      • Rogel Villanueva-Gutiérrez, David W. Roubik, Wilberto Colli-Ucán, Margarito Tuz-Novelo

      Pages 67-76

   7. Melittopalynological Studies of Stingless Bees from the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

      • Roziah Ghazi, Nur Syuhadah Zulqurnain, Wahizatul Afzan Azmi

      Pages 77-88

   8. The Contribution of Palynological Surveys to Stingless Bee Conservation: A Case Study with Melipona subnitida

      • Camila Maia-Silva, Amanda Aparecida Castro Limão, Michael Hrncir, Jaciara da Silva Pereira, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

      Pages 89-101

   9. Pollen Storage by Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides in a Protected Urban Atlantic Forest Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

      • Ortrud Monika Barth, Alex da Silva de Freitas, Bart Vanderborgth

      Pages 103-109

   10. Angiosperm Resources for Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini): A Pot-Pollen Melittopalynological Study in the Gulf of Mexico

       • Elia Ramírez-Arriaga, Karina G. Pacheco-Palomo, Yolanda B. Moguel-Ordoñez, Raquel Zepeda García Moreno, Luis M. Godínez-García

       Pages 111-130

   11. Annual Foraging Patterns of the Maya Bee Melipona beecheii (Bennett, 1831) in Quintana Roo, Mexico

       • Juan Carlos Di Trani, Rogel Villanueva-Gutiérrez

       Pages 131-138

   12. Crop Pollination by Stingless Bees

       • Virginia Meléndez Ramírez, Ricardo Ayala, Hugo Delfín González

       Pages 139-153

   13. Stingless Bees as Potential Pollinators in Agroecosystems in Argentina: Inferences from Pot-Pollen Studies in Natural Environments

       • Favio Gerardo Vossler, Diego César Blettler, Guillermina Andrea Fagúndez, Milagros Dalmazzo

       Pages 155-175

3. Biodiversity, Behavior and Microorganisms of the Stingless Bees (Meliponini)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Meliponini) from Gabon

      • Edgard Cédric Fabre Anguilet, Taofic Alabi, Bach Kim Nguyen, Toussaint Ndong Bengone, Éric Haubruge, Frédéric Francis

      Pages 179-188

   3. 100 Species of Meliponines (Apidae: Meliponini) in a Parcel of Western Amazonian Forest at Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador

      • David W. Roubik

      Pages 189-206

   4. Diversity of Stingless Bees in Ecuador, Pot-Pollen Standards, and Meliponiculture Fostering a Living Museum Meliponini of the World

      • Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, Favian Maza, Virginia Meléndez Ramírez, Viviana Frisone

      Pages 207-227

   5. Nesting Ecology of Stingless Bees in Africa

      • Robert Kajobe, David W. Roubik

      Pages 229-240

   6. On the Trophic Niche of Bees in Cerrado Areas of Brazil and Yeasts in Their Stored Pollen

      • Paula Calaça, Cláudia Simeão, Esther Margarida Bastos, Carlos Augusto Rosa, Yasmine Antonini

      Pages 241-252

This book covers pot-pollen—the other product, besides honey, stored in cerumen pots by Meliponini. Critical assessment is given of stingless bee and pot-pollen biodiversity in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Topics addressed include historical biogeography, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, pollination, ecological interactions, health applications, microbiology, the natural history of bee nests, and chemical, bioactive and individual plant components in stored pollen.
 
Pot-pollen maintains the livelihoods of stingless bees and provides many interesting biological products that are just now beginning to be understood. The Meliponini have developed particular nesting biologies, uses of building materials, and an architecture for pollen storage. Environmental windows provide optimal temperature and availability of pollen sources for success in plant pollination and pollen storage. Palynological composition and pollen taxonomy are used to assess stingless honey bee pollination services. Pollen processing with microorganisms in the nest modifies chemical composition and bioactivity, and confers nutraceutical benefits to the honey and pollen widely relished by native people. Humans have always used stingless bees. Yet, sustainable meliponiculture (stingless bee-keeping) projects have so far lacked a treatise on pot-pollen, which experts provide in this transdisciplinary, groundbreaking volume.

• Food Chemistry
• Conservation Biology
• Sociobiology
• Entomology
• Food Science
• Ethnopharmacology
• South America
• Meliponini
• honey
• pot-pollen
• stingless bee
• beekeeping

“This book with contributions from scientists and experts studying stingless bees and meliponiculture gives an insight into pot-pollen which supports the stingless bees, and its many interesting biological characteristics that are only now beginning to be understood by scientists.” (Bees for Development Journal, Issue 130, March, 2019)

• Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela

  Patricia Vit

• Biology Department, School of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

  Silvia R.M. Pedro

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

  David W. Roubik

Professor Patricia Vit, MSc PhD

Universidad de Los Andes
Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis

Food Science Department
Mérida, Venezuela


The Sydney University
Cancer Research Group
Discipline of Biomedical Science
Sydney, Australia




Dr. Silvia R.M. Pedro
Universidade de São Paulo
School of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature
Biology Department
Brasil




Dr. David W. Roubik
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteTerrestrial Biology DivisionEntomology Department
Panama

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