Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology

Forewords.- Introduction.- Acknowledgements.- SECTION 1 Pollen and the Evolution of Mutualism.- 1. Pot-Pollen as a Discipline. What Does it Include?.- 2. Are Stingless Bees a Broadly Polylectic Group? An Empirical Study of the Adjustments Required.- 3. Pollen collected by stingless bees: a contribution to understand Amazonian biodiversity.- 4. The Stingless Honey Bees (Apidae, Apinae: Meliponini) in Panama, and Ecology from Pollen.- 5. The value of plants for the Mayan stingless honey bee Melipona beecheii (Apidae: Meliponini): a pollen-based study in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.- 6. Melittopalynological Studies of Stingless Bees from East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia.- 7. The Contribution of Palynological Surveys to Stingless Bee Conservation: a Case Study with Melipona subnitida.- 8. Pollen Storage by Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides in a Protected Urban Atlantic Forest Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- 9. Angiosperm Resources for Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini): A Pot-Pollen Melittopalynological Study in the Gulf of Mexico.- 10. Annual Foraging Patterns of the Maya Bee Melipona beecheii (Bennett, 1831) in Quintana Roo, Mexico.- 11. Crop Pollination by Stingless Bees.- 12. Stingless Bees as Potential Pollinators in Agroecosystems in Argentina: Inferences from Pot-Pollen Studies in Natural Environments.- SECTION 2 Biodiversity, Behavior and Microorganisms of the Stingless Bees (Meliponini).- 13. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) from Gabon .- 14. Pushing 100 Species: Meliponines (Apidae: Meliponini) in a Parcel of Western Amazonian Forest at Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador.- 15. Diversity of Stingless Bees in Ecuador, Pot-Pollen Standards and Meliponiculture Fostering a Living Museum for Meliponini of the World.- 16. Nesting Ecology of Stingless Bees in Africa .- 17. On the Trophic Niche of Bees in Cerrado Areas of Brazil and Yeasts in their Stored Pollen.- 18. A Review of the Artificial Diets Used as Pot-Pollen Substitutes .- 19. Yeast and Bacterial Composition in Pot-Pollen Recovered from Meliponini in Colombia: Prospects for a Promising Biological Resource .- SECTION 3 Stingless Bees in Culture and Traditions.- 20. Cultural, Psychological and Organoleptic Factors Related to the Use of Stingless Bees by Rural Residents of Northern Misiones, Argentina .- 21. The Maya Universe in a Pollen Pot Native Stingless Bees in Precolumbian Maya Art .- SECTION 4 Chemical Composition, Bioactivity and Biodiversity of Pot-Pollen.- 22. Nutritional Composition of Pot-Pollen from Four Species of Stingless Bees (Meliponini) in South East Asia .- 23. Characterization of Scaptotrigona mexicana Pot-Pollen from Veracruz, Mexico.- 24. Chemical Characterization and Bioactivity of Tetragonisca angustula Pot-Pollen from Mérida, Venezuela .- 25. Chemical, Microbiological and Palynological composition of the 'Samburá' Melipona scutellaris Pot-Pollen.- 26. Characterization of Pot-Pollen from Southern Venezuela .- 27. Bioactivity and Botanical Origin of Austroplebeia and Tetragonula Australian Pot-Pollen .- 28. Antibacterial Activity of Ethanolic Extracts of Pot-Pollen from Eight Meliponine Species from Venezuela.- 29. Metabolomics of Pot-Pollen from Three Species of Australian Stingless Bees (Meliponini).- SECTION 6 Marketing and Standards of Pot-Pollen.- 30. Rural-Urban Meliponiculture and Ecosystems in Neotropical areas. Scaptotrigona, a Resilient Stingless Bee?.- 31. Pot-Pollen "Samburá" Marketing in Brazil, and Suggested Legisation.- APPENDIX A Ethnic Names of Stingless Bees.- APPENDIX B Microorganisms Associated with Stingless Bees or Used to Test Antimicrobial Activity (AM).- APPENDIX C Taxonomic Index of Bees.- APPENDIX D List of Bee Taxa.- APPENDIX E Taxonomic Index of Plant Families.- APPENDIX F Microorganisms Associated to Stingless Bees or Used to Test Antimicrobial Activity.- INDEX.