Sources and Resources for Pollination Panic
World Bee Checklist
http://www.itis.gov
Discover Life bee checklist
www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Apoidea_species
Explore the world's 19,200 species of bees.
Status of Pollinators
in North America
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11761
A comprehensive report from the U.S. National
Research Council, detailing what we know (and what we don't) about the status
of native and managed pollinators. The report, released before the emergence of
colony collapse disorder, indicates declines in both honeybees and native bees.
U.S. Department of Agriculture news page on colony collapse disorder
http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572
The Xerces Society
http://www.xerces.org
This invertebrate conservation organization offers
information about native pollinators, including instructions for building nests
for native bees and guidelines for making gardens, agriculture, and even golf
courses friendlier to native pollinators.
Pollinator Partnership
http://www.pollinator.org
Region-specific (U.S.) planting guidelines to help
attract native pollinators.
Logan
Bee Lab
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=54280500
Research conducted by these U.S. Department of
Agriculture scientists includes investigating how to manage various species of
native pollinators for agricultural production.
ALARM (assessing large-scale risks for biodiversity using
tested methods) Project
http://www.alarmproject.net/alarm/
European Union biodiversity monitoring effort, with
one major component focused on pollinators.
From the scientific literature
Winfree, R., N. M. Williams, H. Gaines, J. S. Ascher, and C. Kremen. 2008. Wild bee pollinators provide the majority of crop visitation across land-use gradients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, USA. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:793-802.
Winfree, R., N. M. Williams, J. Dushoff, and C. Kremen. 2007. Native bee losses provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses. Ecology Letters 10:1105-1113. Agriculture in the Delaware Valley is compatible with a diverse community of native bees.
Kremen, C., N. M. Williams, R. L. Bugg, J. P. Fay, and R. W. Thorp. 2004. The area requirements of an ecosystem service: crop pollination by native bee communities in California. Ecology Letters 7:1109-1119.
Larsen, T. H., N. M. Williams, and C. Kremen. 2005. Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 8:538-547. In California's Central Valley, highly intensive agriculture doesn't leave much room for native bees.
Ricketts, T. H. 2004. Tropical forest fragments enhance pollinator activity in nearby coffee crops. Conservation Biology 18:1262-1271.
Klein, A. M., B. Vaissiere, J. H. Cane, I. Steffan-Dewenter, S. A. Cunningham, C. Kremen, and T. Tscharntke. 2007. Importance of crop pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 274:303-3. A recent and relatively comprehensive effort to estimate the role of insect pollinators in crop production.