In October 1998, Sao Paulo Workshop on Sustainable Use of Pollinators for Agricultural. Use was held, and as a result from this meeting the Sao Paulo Declaration on Pollinators was constructed. It was submitted to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), in its 5th Conference of Parties (COP), in Nairobi, 2000, where the International Pollinators Initiative (IPI) was approved as a new program related to sustainable agriculture. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was invited to be a facilitator of this process. In COP6 from CBD, 2002, a plan of action for IPI was approved for guiding the actions of regional pollinator initiatives, proposing goals to be attained in 10 years...http://www.conservation.org.br/publicacoes/files/bees_pollinators.pdf Katia Losano Ishara and Rita de Cassia Sindronia Maimoni-Rodella* Departamento de Botanica; Instituto de Biociencias; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Botucatu - SP - Brasil The aim of this work was to identify the pollination and dispersal systems among the species in a disjunct marginal cerrado area and to compare the frequency of these systems to those found in other Neotropical vegetation. The floral and diaspore traits and the pollination and dispersal systems of 176 species were analysed in a cerrado remnant in Southeastern Brazil. The most frequent pollination system was melittophily (63% of the studied species) with the remaining 37% distributed among diverse pollination systems. Zoochory was the predominant system of dispersal (44.9%). The frequencies of melittophily and zoochory observed in diverse tropical areas were the main feature that allowed the formation of distinct groups in the dendrograms generated by cluster analysis. BRAZILIAN ARCHIVES OF BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY Vol.54, n. 3: pp. 629-642, May-June 2011 http://www.scielo.br/pdf/babt/v54n3/v54n3a25.pdf Link: http://www.pollination.com/ Vol 9 (2012) Innate or learned preference for upward-facing flowers?: implications for the costs of pendent flowers from experiments on captive bumble bees PDF Takashi T Makino, James D Thomson Pollination ecology of the invasive tree tobacco Nicotiana glauca: comparisons across native and non-native ranges PDF Jeff Ollerton, Stella Watts, Shawn Connerty, Julia Lock, Leah Parker, Ian Wilson, Sheila Schueller, Julieta Nattero, Andrea A. Cocucci, Ido Izhaki, Sjirk Geerts, Anton Pauw, Jane C. Stout Pollen analyses for pollination research, unacetolyzed pollen PDF Gretchen D. Jones Vol 7 (2012)Cholula IssueThis special issue contains articles that have been presented during the 10th International Pollination Symposium 2011 at Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.Table of ContentsArticles Pollination of Greenhouse Tomatoes by the Mexican bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) PDF Carlos Hernan Vergara, Paula Fonseca-Buendia Short Communications The large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopa spp.) of Nuevo Leon, Mexico PDF Liliana Ramirez-Freire, Glafiro Jose Alanis Flores, Ricardo Ayala Barajas, Humberto Quiroz Martinez, Carlos Gerardo Velazco Macias Reviews Insect pollination: commodity values, trade and policy considerations using coffee as an example PDF Vernon George Thomas, Peter Kevan A review of pollinator conservation and management on infrastructure supporting rights-of-way PDF Victoria Agatha Wojcik, Stephen Buchmann Pollinating insects are in crisis. Understanding bees' relationships with introduced species could help. By Sharon Levy and Nature magazine | November 10, 2011 |Bees thrum among bright red blossoms on a spring day on Mount Diablo, near San Francisco Bay. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, a young ecologist