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Advisory Board.. About the authors.. Acknowledgements.. 1. Introduction.. 1.1 The purpose of Conservation Evidence synopses.. 1.2 Who this synopsis is for.. 1.3 The Conservation Evidence Project.. 1.4 Scope of the Bee Conservation sinopsis.. 1.5 How we decided which bee conservation interventions to include.. 1.6 How we reviewed the literatura.. 1.7 How the evidence is summarised.. 1.8 Terminology used to describe evidence.. 1.9 How you can help to change conservation practice.. 2. Threat: residential and commercial development.. 2.1 Plant parks and gardens with appropriate flowers.. 2.2 Practise 'wildlife gardening'.. 2.3 Protect brownfield sites.. 2.4 Conserve old buildings or structures as nesting sites for bees.. 3. Threat: land use change due to agriculture.. 3.1 Protect existing natural or semi‐natural habitat to prevent conversion to agriculture.. 3.2 Increase the proportion of natural or semi‐natural habitat in the farmed landscape.. 3.3 Provide set‐aside areas in farmland.. 3.4 Restore species‐rich grassland vegetation.. 3.5 Restore heathland.. 3.6 Connect areas of natural or semi‐natural habitat.. 3.7 Reduce tillage.. 3.8 Increase areas of rough grassland for bumblebee nesting.. 3.9 Create patches of bare ground for ground‐nesting bees.. 3.10 Provide grass strips at field margins.. 3.11 Manage hedges to benefit bees.. 3.12 Increase the use of clover leys on farmland.. 3.13 Plant dedicated floral resources on farmland.. 3.14 Sow uncropped arable field margins with an agricultural 'nectar and pollen' mix.. 3.15 Sow uncropped arable field margins with a native wild flower seed mix.. 3.16 Leave arable field margins uncropped with natural regeneration.. 3.17 Increase the diversity of nectar and pollen plants in the landscape.. 3.18 Reduce the intensity of farmland meadow management.. 3.19 Reduce grazing intensity on pastures

4. Threat: pollution - agricultural and forestry effluents.. 4.1 Introduce agri‐environment schemes that reduce spraying.. 4.2 Convert to organic farming.. 4.3 Restrict certain pesticides.. 4.4 Reduce pesticide or herbicide use generally.. 4.5 Reduce fertilizer run‐off into margins.. 4.6 Leave field margins unsprayed within the crop (conservation headlands.. 5. Threat: transportation and service corridors.. 5.1 Restore species‐rich grassland on road verges.. 5.2 Manage land under power lines for wildlife.. 6. Threat: biological resource use.. 6.1 Manage wild honey bees sustainably.. 6.2 Replace honey‐hunting with apiculture.. 6.3 Legally protect large native trees.. 6.4 Re‐plant native forest.. 6.5 Retain dead wood in forest management.. 7. Threat: natural system modification - natural fire and fire suppression.. 7.1 Control fire risk using mechanical shrub control and/or prescribed burning.. 8. Threat: invasive non‐native species.. 8.1 Eradicate existing populations.. 8.2 Control deployment of hives/ nests.. 8.3 Prevent escape of commercial bumblebees from greenhouses.. 8.4 Prevent spread of the small hive beetle.. 8.5 Ensure commercial hives/nests are disease free.. 8.6 Keep pure breeding populations of native honey bee subspecies.. 8.7 Exclude introduced European earwigs from nest sites.. 9. Threat: problematic native species.. 9.1 Exclude bumblebee nest predators such as badgers and mink.. 9.2 Exclude ants from solitary bee nesting sites.. 10. Providing artificial nest sites for bees.. 10.1 Provide artificial nest sites for solitary bees.. 10.2 Provide artificial nest sites for bumblebees.. 10.3 Provide nest boxes for stingless bees

11. Captive breeding and rearing of wild bees (ex‐situ conservation.. 11.1 Rear declining bumblebees in captivity.. 11.2 Reintroduce laboratory‐reared bumblebee queens to the wild.. 11.3 Reintroduce laboratory‐reared bumblebee colonies to the wild.. 11.4 Translocate bumblebee colonies in nest boxes.. 11.5 Rear and manage populations of solitary bees.. 11.6 Translocate solitary bees.. 11.7 Introduce mated females to small populations to improve genetic diversity.. 12 education and awareness‐raising.. 12.1 Enhance bee taxonomy skills through higher education and training.. 12.2 Provide training to conservationists and land managers on bee ecology and conservation.. 12.3 Raise awareness amongst the general public through campaigns and public information.. Index

Monografía que reúne en un solo volumen evidencias científicas y experiencias particulares de manejo y gestión acerca de la conservación de las abejas. Los autores han trabajado con expertos de todo el mundo para ofrecer una serie de recomendaciones que sirvan para desarrollar una lista de intervenciones que puedan beneficiar a las abejas. Estas incluirían acciones que podrían ir desde la protección de hábitats naturales al control de las enfermedades que surgen en colonias domésticas. Ofrecen, así, ejemplos de intervenciones comentando experiencias concretas y estudios que se han desarrollado sobre el tema, para sintetizar qué es lo que se conoce o desconoce sobre la efectividad de las acciones concretas sobre conservación en las abejas. Español

This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild bees. The authors worked with an international group of bee experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild bees. They range from protecting natural habitat to controlling disease in commercial bumblebee colonies. For each intervention, the book summarises studies captured by the Conservation Evidence project, where that intervention has been tested and its effects on bees quantified. The result is a thorough guide to what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of bee conservation actions throughout the world. Inglés