Using reports of bee mortality in the field to calibrate laboratory-derived pesticide risk indices

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 546-554

  Mineau, P ^a   Harding, K M ^a   Whiteside, M ^a,b   Fletcher, M R ^c   Garthwaite, D ^c   Knopper, L D ^d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Honey bees; Incidents; Mortality; Pesticides; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

CALIBRATION; DATABASE; FIELDWORK; HONEYBEE; LABORATORY METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POISONING; POLLINATOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; RISK;

ANIMALS; BEES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INSECTICIDES; RISK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 43649088716     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[546:UROBMI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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