Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology

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This book covers pot-pollen—the other product, besides honey, stored in cerumen pots by Meliponini. Critical assessment is given of stingless bee and pot-pollen biodiversity in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Topics addressed include historical biogeography, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, pollination, ecological interactions, health applications, microbiology, the natural history of bee nests, and chemical, bioactive and individual plant components in stored pollen. Pot-pollen maintains the livelihoods of stingless bees and provides many interesting biological products that are just now beginning to be understood. The Meliponini have developed particular nesting biologies, uses of building materials, and an architecture for pollen storage. Environmental windows provide optimal temperature and availability of pollen sources for success in plant pollination and pollen storage. Palynological composition and pollen taxonomy are used to assess stingless honey bee pollination services. Pollen processing with microorganisms in the nest modifies chemical composition and bioactivity, and confers nutraceutical benefits to the honey and pollen widely relished by native people. Humans have always used stingless bees. Yet, sustainable meliponiculture (stingless bee-keeping) projects have so far lacked a treatise on pot-pollen, which experts provide in this transdisciplinary, groundbreaking volume. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Pot-Pollen as a Discipline: What Does It Include? (David W. Roubik, Jorge Enrique Moreno Patiño)....Pages 3-15 Are Stingless Bees a Broadly Polylectic Group? An Empirical Study of the Adjustments Required for an Improved Assessment of Pollen Diet in Bees (Favio Gerardo Vossler)....Pages 17-28 Pollen Collected by Stingless Bees: A Contribution to Understanding Amazonian Biodiversity (Maria L. Absy, André R. Rech, Marcos G. Ferreira)....Pages 29-46 The Stingless Honey Bees (Apidae, Apinae: Meliponini) in Panama and Pollination Ecology from Pollen Analysis (David W. Roubik, Jorge Enrique Moreno Patiño)....Pages 47-66 The Value of Plants for the Mayan Stingless Honey Bee Melipona beecheii (Apidae: Meliponini): A Pollen-Based Study in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Rogel Villanueva-Gutiérrez, David W. Roubik, Wilberto Colli-Ucán, Margarito Tuz-Novelo)....Pages 67-76 Melittopalynological Studies of Stingless Bees from the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia (Roziah Ghazi, Nur Syuhadah Zulqurnain, Wahizatul Afzan Azmi)....Pages 77-88 The Contribution of Palynological Surveys to Stingless Bee Conservation: A Case Study with Melipona subnitida (Camila Maia-Silva, Amanda Aparecida Castro Limão, Michael Hrncir, Jaciara da Silva Pereira, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca)....Pages 89-101 Pollen Storage by Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides in a Protected Urban Atlantic Forest Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Ortrud Monika Barth, Alex da Silva de Freitas, Bart Vanderborgth)....Pages 103-109 Angiosperm Resources for Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini): A Pot-Pollen Melittopalynological Study in the Gulf of Mexico (Elia Ramírez-Arriaga, Karina G. Pacheco-Palomo, Yolanda B. Moguel-Ordoñez, Raquel Zepeda García Moreno, Luis M. Godínez-García)....Pages 111-130 Annual Foraging Patterns of the Maya Bee Melipona beecheii (Bennett, 1831) in Quintana Roo, Mexico (Juan Carlos Di Trani, Rogel Villanueva-Gutiérrez)....Pages 131-138 Crop Pollination by Stingless Bees (Virginia Meléndez Ramírez, Ricardo Ayala, Hugo Delfín González)....Pages 139-153 Stingless Bees as Potential Pollinators in Agroecosystems in Argentina: Inferences from Pot-Pollen Studies in Natural Environments (Favio Gerardo Vossler, Diego César Blettler, Guillermina Andrea Fagúndez, Milagros Dalmazzo)....Pages 155-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Meliponini) from Gabon (Edgard Cédric Fabre Anguilet, Taofic Alabi, Bach Kim Nguyen, Toussaint Ndong Bengone, Éric Haubruge, Frédéric Francis)....Pages 179-188 100 Species of Meliponines (Apidae: Meliponini) in a Parcel of Western Amazonian Forest at Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador (David W. Roubik)....Pages 189-206 Diversity of Stingless Bees in Ecuador, Pot-Pollen Standards, and Meliponiculture Fostering a Living Museum Meliponini of the World (Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, Favian Maza, Virginia Meléndez Ramírez, Viviana Frisone)....Pages 207-227 Nesting Ecology of Stingless Bees in Africa (Robert Kajobe, David W. Roubik)....Pages 229-240 On the Trophic Niche of Bees in Cerrado Areas of Brazil and Yeasts in Their Stored Pollen (Paula Calaça, Cláudia Simeão, Esther Margarida Bastos, Carlos Augusto Rosa, Yasmine Antonini)....Pages 241-252 A Review of the Artificial Diets Used as Pot-Pollen Substitutes (Cristiano Menezes, Camila Raquel Paludo, Mônica Tallarico Pupo)....Pages 253-262 Yeast and Bacterial Composition in Pot-Pollen Recovered from Meliponini in Colombia: Prospects for a Promising Biological Resource (Marcela Villegas-Plazas, Judith Figueroa-Ramírez, Carla Portillo, Paola Monserrate, Víctor Tibatá, Oswaldo Andrés Sánchez et al.)....Pages 263-279 Front Matter ....Pages 281-281 Cultural, Psychological, and Organoleptic Factors Related to the Use of Stingless Bees by Rural Residents of Northern Misiones, Argentina (Fernando Zamudio, Norma Ines Hilgert)....Pages 283-297 The Maya Universe in a Pollen Pot: Native Stingless Bees in Pre-Columbian Maya Art (Laura Elena Sotelo Santos, Carlos Alvarez Asomoza)....Pages 299-309 Front Matter ....Pages 311-311 Nutritional Composition of Pot-Pollen from Four Species of Stingless Bees (Meliponini) in Southeast Asia (Bajaree Chuttong, Rewat Phongphisutthinant, Korawan Sringarm, Michael Burgett, Ortrud Monika Barth)....Pages 313-324 Characterization of Scaptotrigona mexicana Pot-Pollen from Veracruz, Mexico (Adriana Contreras-Oliva, Juan Antonio Pérez-Sato, Fernando Carlos Gómez-Merino, Luz Anel López-Garay, Rogel Villanueva-Gutiérrez, María Magdalena Crosby-Galván et al.)....Pages 325-337 Chemical Characterization and Bioactivity of Tetragonisca angustula Pot-Pollen from Mérida, Venezuela (Patricia Vit, Bertha Santiago, María Peña-Vera, Elizabeth Pérez-Pérez)....Pages 339-347 Chemical, Microbiological, and Palynological Composition of the “Samburá” Melipona scutellaris Pot-Pollen (Rogério Marcos de Oliveira Alves, Geni da Silva Sodré, Carlos Alfredo Lopes Carvalho)....Pages 349-360 Characterization of Pot-Pollen from Southern Venezuela (Patricia Vit, Giancarlo Ricciardelli D’Albore, Ortrud Monika Barth, María Peña-Vera, Elizabeth Pérez-Pérez)....Pages 361-375 Bioactivity and Botanical Origin of Austroplebeia and Tetragonula Australian Pot-Pollen (Elizabeth Pérez-Pérez, Miguel Sulbarán-Mora, Ortrud Monika Barth, Carmelina Flavia Massaro, Patricia Vit)....Pages 377-390 Antibacterial Activity of Ethanolic Extracts of Pot-Pollen Produced by Eight Meliponine Species from Venezuela (Miguel Sulbarán-Mora, Elizabeth Pérez-Pérez, Patricia Vit)....Pages 391-399 Metabolomics Analysis of Pot-Pollen from Three Species of Australian Stingless Bees (Meliponini) (Carmelina Flavia Massaro, Tommaso Francesco Villa, Caroline Hauxwell)....Pages 401-417 Front Matter ....Pages 419-419 Rural-Urban Meliponiculture and Ecosystems in Neotropical Areas. Scaptotrigona, a Resilient Stingless Bee? (Sol Martínez-Fortún, Carlos Ruiz, Natalia Acosta Quijano, Patricia Vit)....Pages 421-434 Pot-Pollen ‘Samburá’ Marketing in Brazil and Suggested Legislation (Rogério Marcos de Oliveira Alves, Carlos Alfredo Lopes Carvalho)....Pages 435-443 Back Matter ....Pages 445-481