Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees

Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783642726491
ISBN-13 : 3642726496
Rating : 4/5 (496 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees by : Friedrich Ruttner

Download or read book Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees written by Friedrich Ruttner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honeybees are as small as flies or as large as hornets, nesting in nar row cavities of trees and rocks or in the open on large limbs of trees 30 m above ground. They occur in tropical zones and in the forests of the Ural mountains, they survive seven months of winter and even longer periods of drought and heat. Historically, they lived through a extended time of stagnation in the tropics from the mid-Tertiary, but then experienced an explosive evolution during the Pleistocene, re sulting in the conquest of huge new territories and the origin of two dozen subspecies in Apis mellifera. This vast geographic and ecologic diversification of the genus Apis was accompanied by a rich morphological variation, less on the level of species than at the lowest rank, the subspecies level. Variation being exclusively of a quantitative kind at this first step of speciation, tradi tional descriptive methods of systematics proved to be unsatisfactory, and honeybee taxonomy finally ended up in a confusing multitude of inadequately described units. Effective methods of morphometric-sta tistical analysis of honeybee popUlations, centered on limited areas, have been developed during the last decades. Only the numerical characterization of the populations, together with the description of behavior, shows the true geographic variability and will end current generalizations and convenient stereotypes.


Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees Related Books

Origins of Apis Mellifica in America
Language: en
Pages: 42
Authors: Benjamin Smith Barton
Categories: Bee culture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1793 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Friedrich Ruttner
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-09 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Honeybees are as small as flies or as large as hornets, nesting in nar row cavities of trees and rocks or in the open on large limbs of trees 30 m above ground.
Asian Honey Bees
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Benjamin P. Oldroyd
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand b
Status of Pollinators in North America
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: National Research Council
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-13 - Publisher: National Academies Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Neurobiology of Chemical Communication
Language: en
Pages: 614
Authors: Carla Mucignat-Caretta
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-14 - Publisher: CRC Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Intraspecific communication involves the activation of chemoreceptors and subsequent activation of different central areas that coordinate the responses of the