Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming

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Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming | Emeritus Peter Kevan (u. a.) | Buch | Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science | Gebunden | Englisch | 2022 | Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing | EAN 9781801460989 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. N° de ref. del artículo 120709375

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Dr Peter Kevan is Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo and Ottawa University, Canada and a Research Associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Royal Botanical Garden. Professor Kevan is internationally renowned for his research on the biology and conservation of bees and other pollinators, with over 200 publications on these topics. Amongst other honours, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Entomological Society and the Royal Society of Biology.

Dr D. Susan Willis Chan works in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph where she conducts research in entomology, ecology and biology, as well as working with Canadian farmers on conserving pollinators. Susan is a species expert on the ground-nesting hoary squash bee and has a strong interest in all aspects of agroecology.

Professor Stevenson holds a PhD in Chemical Ecology from University of London and is Head of Trait Diversity and Function at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, studying plant and fungal traits, to aid conservation, increase resilience to global change, and explore potential uses of plants and fungi for human health and well-being. Professor Stevenson also holds a dual role as Professor of Plant Chemistry at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich.

Professor Rob Paxton is Chair of Zoology at the University of Halle, Germany. He has held postdoc positions at Cardiff University, UK, Uppsala University, Sweden and the University of Tübingen, Germany. His main research areas are: social evolution, host-parasite relations, pollination and conservation genetics, with a taxonomic focus on bees.

Dr Jose Franco is a Research Agroecologist with the US Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, WI. His research focus is at the intersection of cover crop systems and precision agriculture and explores methods to increase cover crop performance and inclusion in dairy forage rotations.