Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual-and colony-level traits in bees

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7422, 2012, Pages 105-108

  Gill, Richard J ^a   Ramos Rodriguez, Oscar ^a   Raine, Nigel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIDACLOPRID;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BEE; COLONY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; NEONICOTINOID; POLLEN; POLLINATOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; PYRETHROID; QUEEN; SOCIAL INSECT; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; WILD POPULATION; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT); WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NITRO COMPOUNDS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; PYRETHRINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84868364955     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11585     Document Type: Article

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