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List of works by Vera L Imperatriz-Fonseca

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Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

scientific article

Mate number, kin selection and social conflicts in stingless bees and honeybees

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 1999)

A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee

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Global meliponiculture: challenges and opportunities

Pollination services at risk: Bee habitats will decrease owing to climate change in Brazil

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A molecular phylogeny of the stingless bee genus Melipona (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

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Worldwide Alien Invasion: A Methodological Approach to Forecast the Potential Spread of a Highly Invasive Pollinator

scientific article

A Brazilian social bee must cultivate fungus to survive

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Olfactory eavesdropping by a competitively foraging stingless bee, Trigona spinipes.

scientific article published in August 2004

Resource Partitioning between Highly Eusocial Bees and Possible Impact of the Introduced Africanized Honey Bee on Native Stingless Bees in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: December 1996)

The Dependence of Crops for Pollinators and the Economic Value of Pollination in Brazil.

scientific article published on 04 May 2015

Behavioral suites mediate group-level foraging dynamics in communities of tropical stingless bees

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Male production in stingless bees: variable outcomes of queen-worker conflict

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The queen is dead--long live the workers: intraspecific parasitism by workers in the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Bees for development: Brazilian survey reveals how to optimize stingless beekeeping

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Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system

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Successful maintenance of a stingless bee population despite a severe genetic bottleneck

article published in 2010

Gender identification of five genera of stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) based on wing morphology

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Geometric morphometrics of the wing as a tool for assigning genetic lineages and geographic origin to Melipona beecheii (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)

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The males of Melipona and other stingless bees, and their mothers

Genetic differentiation of the Euglossini (Hymenoptera, Apidae) populations on a mainland coastal plain and an island in southeastern Brazil.

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Intraspecific queen parasitism in a highly eusocial bee.

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Monogamy in large bee societies: a stingless paradox

scientific article published on 26 January 2014

Morphometrical, biochemical and molecular tools for assessing biodiversity. An example in Plebeia remota (Holmberg, 1903) (Apidae, Meliponini)

Biology of the stingless beePlebeia remota (Holmberg): observations and evolutionary implications

scientific article (publication date: March 1995)

Landscape Genomic Conservation Assessment of a Narrow-Endemic and a Widespread Morning Glory From Amazonian Savannas.

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Reconciling Mining with the Conservation of Cave Biodiversity: A Quantitative Baseline to Help Establish Conservation Priorities.

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Beekeeping practices and geographic distance, not land use, drive gene flow across tropical bees.

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Landscape genetics of a tropical rescue pollinator

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Safeguarding Ecosystem Services: A Methodological Framework to Buffer the Joint Effect of Habitat Configuration and Climate Change

scientific article published on June 19, 2015

Chemical basis for inter-colonial aggression in the stingless bee Scaptotrigona bipunctata (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

scientific article published in August 2004

Projected climate change threatens pollinators and crop production in Brazil.

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

Numerical investment in sex and caste by stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini): a comparative analysis

scientific article (publication date: March 2006)

Genetic and behavioral conflict over male production between workers and queens in the stingless bee Paratrigona subnuda

scientific article published in 2002

Factors influencing survival duration and choice of virgin queens in the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata.

scientific article published on 11 May 2013

Comparative study in stingless bees (Meliponini) demonstrates that nest entrance size predicts traffic and defensivity

scientific article (publication date: 16 November 2007)

Identifying the areas to preserve passion fruit pollination service in Brazilian Tropical Savannas under climate change

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Habitat Loss Does Not Always Entail Negative Genetic Consequences

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Natural history of the narrow endemics Ipomoea cavalcantei and I. marabaensis from Amazon Canga savannahs.

scientific article published on 8 August 2017

Queens, not workers, produce the males in the stingless bee Schwarziana quadripunctata quadripunctata

Out with the garbage: the parasitic strategy of the mantisfly Plega hagenella mass-infesting colonies of the eusocial bee Melipona subnitida in northeastern Brazil

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Flight activity and colony strength in the stingless bee Melipona bicolor bicolor (Apidae, Meliponinae)

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Stingless bees (Melipona subnitida) adjust brood production rather than foraging activity in response to changes in pollen stores.

scientific article published in June 2016

Mapping and quantification of ferruginous outcrop savannas in the Brazilian Amazon: A challenge for biodiversity conservation

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Variation in the ability to communicate three-dimensional resource location by stingless bees from different habitats

How queen and workers share in male production in the stingless bee Melipona subnitida Ducke (Apidae, Meliponini)

article by D. Koedam et al published May 2005 in Insectes Sociaux

Consumption of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam during the larval stage affects the survival and development of the stingless bee, Scaptotrigona aff. depilis

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Foraging ofScaptotrigonaaff.depilis(Hymenoptera, Apidae) in an Urbanized Area: Seasonality in Resource Availability and Visited Plants

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Effect of group size on the aggression strategy of an extirpating stingless bee, Trigona spinipes

Landscape genomics to the rescue of a tropical bee threatened by habitat loss and climate change

scientific article published on 10 April 2019