Modelling honey bee queen mating as a measure of feral colony density

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 247, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-57

  Arundel, Jonathan ^a   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^b   Winter, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Apis mellifera; Drone congregation areas; Feral colonies; Honey bee; Spatial process

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; APIS MELLIFERA; DRONE CONGREGATION AREAS; FERAL COLONIES; HONEY BEE; SPATIAL PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TARGET DRONES;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

BEE; COLONY STRUCTURE; FERAL ORGANISM; POISSON RATIO; QUEEN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILD POPULATION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84870198875     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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