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

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

GET 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.
Honeybees of Asia
Language: en
Pages: 672
Authors: H. Randall Hepburn
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-04 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

GET EBOOK

A multi-authored work on the basic biology of Asian honeybees, written by expert specialists in the field, this book highlights phylogeny, classification, mitoc
Honeybee Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Thomas D. Seeley
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-20 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees s
Phylogenetics of Bees
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Rustem Abuzarovich Ilyasov
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-19 - Publisher: CRC Press

GET EBOOK

Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants. The ancestors of bees are assumed to be predatory wasps, which switched to p
Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner
Language: de
Pages: 401
Authors: Terry Ryan Kane
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-22 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

Ein unerlässliches Referenzwerk für die Gesunderhaltung von Honigbienen. Honey Bee Medicine for Veterinary Practitioners ist ein zuverlässiger Leitfaden für