Word: nabhan
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Many of these pollinators are in trouble, however, threatened by encroachment on open spaces, the felling and fragmentation of forests, industrial pollution and overzealous pesticide use. "The pollination crisis," as entomologists Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan term it in a new book, The Forgotten Pollinators (Island Press/Shearwater Books; $25), is not just of concern to beekeepers and rainforest activists. It is, they write, a way to "inform us about how the world works and what is at stake if we simply ignore the needs of pollinators...
...pollination crisis, but the bees' demise has also served to focus attention on the potential of "native" (as opposed to imported) pollinators. "We need to remember that tens of thousands of other species have been out there all along, working shifts around the clock," says Pollinators co-author Nabhan, director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...