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Paths of Pollen
2023
Overview
A tiny organism called pollen pulls off one of nature's key
tasks: plant reproduction. Pollination involves a complex network
of different species interacting with one another and mutually
adapting to their ecosystems, which are constantly changing.
Some pollen grains require just a puff of wind to set them in
motion, but most plants depend on creatures gifted with mobility.
These might be birds, bats, reptiles, or insects including
butterflies, beetles, flies, wasps, and over twenty thousand
species of bee. In Paths of Pollen Stephen Humphrey asks
readers to imagine a tipping point where plants and pollinators can
no longer adapt to stressors such as urbanization, modern
agriculture, and global climate change. Illuminating the science of
pollination ecology through evocative encounters with biologists,
conservationists, and beekeepers, Humphrey illustrates the
significance of pollination to such diverse concerns as food
supply, biodiversity, rising global temperatures, and the
resilience of landscapes.
As human actions erase habitats and raise the planet's
temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of
pollinators faces decline or even extinction. Paths of
Pollen chronicles pollen's vital mission to spread plant
genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking
towards an ecologically uncertain future.
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780228018971, 0228018978
