A quantitative model of honey bee colony population dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Khoury, David S ^a   Myerscough, Mary R ^a   Barron, Andrew B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FORAGER; FORAGING; HONEYBEE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BEE; COLONY COLLAPSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BEES; COLONY COLLAPSE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79955145168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018491     Document Type: Article

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