My research agenda concerns insect/plant
interactions especially pollination
ecology and foraging/mating biology
of all bees (melittology) especially
carpenter bees, mason bees and bumble bees.
I have conducted studies in the
fields of chemical ecology, biophysics
of wind-pollinated plants and the
evolution of pollen specialization
by solitary bees. Related interests
include pollen and nectar chemistry,
pollen dispersal, carrying capacities
of deserts for bees, buzz pollination
and oil-producing flowers, foraging
dynamics of honey bees and stingless
bees, and most recently, studies
of conservation biology of native
bees and their use in restoration
ecology.
Buchmann, S.L. 2011. Honey Bees: Letters from the Hive (A History of Bees and Honey), Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, New York, 212 pp.
Buchmann, S. and D. Cohn. 2007. The Bee Tree. Cinco Puntos Press. A children's picture book, El Paso, Texas, 40 pp.
Kevan PG, Buchmann SL, MacKenzie KE. 2005. Frugivory
by bumble bees (Hymenoptera : Apidae : Bombus). Journal
of the Kansas Entomological Society 78(1): 80-81.
Nina Chambers, Yajaira Gray, and Stephen Buchmann.
2005. Pollinators of the Sonoran Desert, a Field Guide. Tucson, Arizona:
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Stephen Buchmann and Banning Repplier. 2005. Letters
from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind.
Bantam.
Raguso RA, Henzel C, Buchmann SL, et al. 2003. Trumpet
flowers of the Sonoran Desert: Floral biology of Peniocereus
cacti and sacred Datura. International Journal of Plant Sciences
164(6): 877-892.
King MJ, Buchmann SL. 2003. Floral sonication by
bees: Mesosomal vibration by Bombus and Xylocopa,
but not Apis (Hymenoptera : Apidae), ejects pollen from poricidal
anthers. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76(2):
295-305.
Roulston TH, Cane JH, Buchmann SL. 2000. What governs
protein content of pollen: Pollinator preferences, pollen-pistil interactions,
or phylogeny? Ecological Monographs 70(4): 617-643.
Roulston TH, Buchmann SL. 2000. A phylogenetic reconsideration
of the pollen starch-pollination correlation. Evolutionary Ecology
Research 2(5): 627-643.
Buchmann, S.L. and G.P. Nabhan. 1996/97. The Forgotten
Pollinators. Island Press, Washington, D.C., 292 pp.
Matheson, A., S.L. Buchmann,
C. O'Toole, P. Westrich and I.H.
Williams (eds.). 1996. The Conservation
of Bees. Linnean Society Symposium
Series No. 18, Academic Press,
Harcourt Brace & Company,
Publishers, New York, 254 pp.
Nabhan, G.P. and S.L.
Buchmann. 1997. Services
Provided by Pollinators. In: Nature's
Services: Societal Dependence
On Natural Ecosystems, Chapter
8, G. Daily (ed.), Island Press,
Pp. 133-150.
Sugden, E.A., R.W. Thorp and S.L. Buchmann. 1996.
Honey bee-native bee competition: focal point for environmental change
and apicultural response in Australia. Bee World 77(1):26-44.
