The emerging threat of pollinator decline has motivated research on bee conservation
biology in order to both understand the causes of declines and to develop appropriate …

Many wild and managed bee pollinators have experienced population declines over the
past several decades, and molecular and population genetic tools have been valuable in …

Bees are major pollinators of Angiosperms and therefore their apparent decline is of
importance for humans and biodiversity. We synthesise results of 12 recent reviews to …

We reviewed the theory of conservation genetics, with special emphasis on the influence of
haplodiploidy and other aspects of bee biology upon conservation genetic parameters. We …

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 …

Oligolectic bees are specialists that collect pollen from one or a few closely related species
of plants, while polylectic bees are generalists that collect pollen from both related and …

The following overview on bee breeding in Europe was undertaken for the 6th European
Bee Conference 'Bees without frontiers' organized by IBRA and held in Cardiff (UK) in July …

Many parts of the globe experience severe losses and fragmentation of habitats, affecting
the self-sustainability of pollinator populations. A number of bee species coexist as wild and …

Bee breeding has several inherent complexities that have been responsible, in some
measure, for its disappointing progress in the past; these include (1) controlled mating of …

The conservation genetics of bees is of particular interest because many bee species are in
decline, so jeopardizing the essential ecosystem service of plant pollination that they …