Scientific note: Colony losses survey in Turkey and causes of bee deaths

Apidologie

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-453

  Giray, Tugrul ^a   Kence, Meral ^b   Oskay, Devrim ^c,d   Döke, Mehmet Ali ^b   Kence, Aykut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Namik   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anatolia; bee deaths; bee races; CCD; climate

Indexed keywords

APICULTURE; COLONY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HONEYBEE; MORTALITY; PARASITE; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; WEATHER;

TURKEY;

APOIDEA;

EID: 77956754450     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido/2009077     Document Type: Article

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