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  title info:
    title: Beekeeping in traditional agroecosystems of southern Mexico
  name:
    name part: Dixon, Clifton Vaudy
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Kimber, Clarissa T.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Arreola, Daniel
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Carter, George
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Sweet, Merrill
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Norman
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1988
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 208 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: For Mexico, there appears to have been four areas where the keeping of stingless bees was popular in pre-Columbian times. The headwaters of the semiarid Rio Balsas basin of Guerrero was one such area. Today, descendant populations of these aboriginal groups still maintain stingless bees, as well as the recently introduced European honey bee. Both types of bees are incorporated into subsistence agroecosystems and play vital roles in economic activities. Bee products are used as: sweeteners, alcoholic beverages, candles, medicinals, and in religion. Bees pollinate crops, and honey is sold in periodic markets. For communities becoming more market oriented, the expansion of beekeeping systems may be a vital alternative for obtaining cash resources when compared to the expansion of present-day milpas that rely upon increasing the use of energy inefficient cropping systems and precipitate environmental problems such as soil loss. The antiquity of beekeeping in traditional agroecosystems suggests, as does this dissertation, that bees are an important component in the system. Bees prefer disturbed environments, such as agricultural fields, and they are responsible for the pollination and increased production of some crops, such as cucurbits. Beekeeping is an integral component to traditional farming strategies and it may be that by utilizing such management strategies, as beekeeping, traditional farming peoples may be able to till the land for cash needs and not disrupt the ecological balance inherent in sustained agricultural yields.
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Geography."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1988
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Bee culture
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Beekeepers
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural systems
  subject:
    topic: Bee culture
  subject:
    topic: Beekeepers
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Major geography
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 891103
    record change date: 20200904152418.0
    record identifier: in00000785637
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng