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Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

There are well-documented declines in some wild and managed pollinators in several regions of the world, however, many effective policy and management responses can be implemented to safeguard pollinators and sustain pollination services.
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Global meliponiculture: challenges and opportunities

The general panorama of meliponiculture is presented and it is suggested that the successful use of stingless bees will promote the development of new breeding techniques and commercialization possibilities, which must be designed to be sustainable.
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Mate number, kin selection and social conflicts in stingless bees and honeybees

Microsatellite genotyping of workers from 13 species (ten genera) of stingless bees shows that genetic relatedness is very high, coupled with the multiple mating of honeybee queens, permits kin selection theory to account for many differences in the social biology of the two taxa.
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Diversity, threats and conservation of native bees in the Neotropics

The Neotropics bee fauna is very rich with 5000 recognised species, including 33 genera (391 species) of Meliponini, but it is estimated to be at least three fold greater in species richness.…
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Important bee plants for stingless bees (Melipona and Trigonini) and Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera) in neotropical habitats: a review.

Important bee plants for stingless bees (Melipona and Trigonini) and Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera) in neotropical habitats: a review.
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Resource Partitioning between Highly Eusocial Bees and Possible Impact of the Introduced Africanized Honey Bee on Native Stingless Bees in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

The highly eusocial bee community of the neotropical Atlantic Rainforest was studied at Boraceia Biological Station in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, andTrophic niche overlap between the various species of stingless bees is evident, and it was generally larger within the tribes Meliponini and Trigonini than between members of different tribes.
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The Dependence of Crops for Pollinators and the Economic Value of Pollination in Brazil

It is found that 85 crops in Brazil depend on pollinators and there is no information about pollinator dependence regarding some important crops, showing the urgent need for basic research into reproductive biology and pollination ecology.
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Utilization of floral resources by species of Melipona (Apidae, Meliponinae): floral preferences

By analyzing the feeding habits of other stingless bees, it was hypothesized that floral preferences could play a role in this kind of choice.
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A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee

Evidence for a physical soldier subcaste in a bee is provided and opens up opportunities for the comparative study of physical castes in social insects, including the question of why soldiers appear to be so much rarer in bees than in ants or termites.
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Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on pollinators, pollination and food production

The thematic assessment of pollinators, pollination and food production carried out under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aims to…
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