Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health

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Autor(a) principal: Durazzo, Alessandra
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Lucarini, Massimo, Plutino, Manuela, Lucini, Luigi, Aromolo, Rita, Martinelli, Erika, Souto, Eliana B., Santini, Antonello, Pignatti, Giuseppe
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/105193
https://doi.org/10.3390/life11090970
Resumo: Biodiversity strengthens the productivity of any ecosystem (agricultural land, forest, lake, etc.). The loss of biodiversity contributes to food and energy insecurity; increases vulnerability to natural disasters, such as floods or tropical storms; and decreases the quality of both life and health. Wild and managed bees play a key role in maintaining the biodiversity and in the recovery and restoration of degraded habitats. The novelty character of this perspective is to give an updated representation of bee products' biodiversity, sustainability, and health relationship. The role of bees as bioindicators, their importance in the conservation of biodiversity, their ecosystem services, and the variety of the bee products are described herein. An overview of the main components of bee products, their biological potentials, and health is highlighted and detailed as follows: (i) nutritional value of bee products, (ii) bioactive profile of bee products and the related beneficial properties; (iii) focus on honey and health through a literature quantitative analysis, and (iv) bee products explored through databases. Moreover, as an example of the interconnection between health, biodiversity, and sustainability, a case study, namely the "Cellulose Park", realized in Rome (Italy), is presented here. This case study highlights how bee activities can be used to assess and track changes in the quality of agricultural ecosystems-hive products could be valid indicators of the quality and health of the surrounding environment, as well as the changes induced by the biotic and abiotic factors that impact the sustainability of agricultural production and biodiversity conservation in peri-urban areas.
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title Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
spellingShingle Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
Durazzo, Alessandra
bee products
honey
biodiversity
sustainability
ecosystem services
health
bioindicators
title_short Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
title_full Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
title_fullStr Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
title_full_unstemmed Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
title_sort Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Health
author Durazzo, Alessandra
author_facet Durazzo, Alessandra
Lucarini, Massimo
Plutino, Manuela
Lucini, Luigi
Aromolo, Rita
Martinelli, Erika
Souto, Eliana B.
Santini, Antonello
Pignatti, Giuseppe
author_role author
author2 Lucarini, Massimo
Plutino, Manuela
Lucini, Luigi
Aromolo, Rita
Martinelli, Erika
Souto, Eliana B.
Santini, Antonello
Pignatti, Giuseppe
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Durazzo, Alessandra
Lucarini, Massimo
Plutino, Manuela
Lucini, Luigi
Aromolo, Rita
Martinelli, Erika
Souto, Eliana B.
Santini, Antonello
Pignatti, Giuseppe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv bee products
honey
biodiversity
sustainability
ecosystem services
health
bioindicators
topic bee products
honey
biodiversity
sustainability
ecosystem services
health
bioindicators
description Biodiversity strengthens the productivity of any ecosystem (agricultural land, forest, lake, etc.). The loss of biodiversity contributes to food and energy insecurity; increases vulnerability to natural disasters, such as floods or tropical storms; and decreases the quality of both life and health. Wild and managed bees play a key role in maintaining the biodiversity and in the recovery and restoration of degraded habitats. The novelty character of this perspective is to give an updated representation of bee products' biodiversity, sustainability, and health relationship. The role of bees as bioindicators, their importance in the conservation of biodiversity, their ecosystem services, and the variety of the bee products are described herein. An overview of the main components of bee products, their biological potentials, and health is highlighted and detailed as follows: (i) nutritional value of bee products, (ii) bioactive profile of bee products and the related beneficial properties; (iii) focus on honey and health through a literature quantitative analysis, and (iv) bee products explored through databases. Moreover, as an example of the interconnection between health, biodiversity, and sustainability, a case study, namely the "Cellulose Park", realized in Rome (Italy), is presented here. This case study highlights how bee activities can be used to assess and track changes in the quality of agricultural ecosystems-hive products could be valid indicators of the quality and health of the surrounding environment, as well as the changes induced by the biotic and abiotic factors that impact the sustainability of agricultural production and biodiversity conservation in peri-urban areas.
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