Dr. Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 scientific publications and 11 books. The Forgotten Pollinators (1997, Island Press) with Gary Paul Nabhan won the Benjamin Franklin Award and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He is affiliated with the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University and is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.