BEEHAVE: A systems model of honeybee colony dynamics and foraging to explore multifactorial causes of colony failure

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 470-482

  Becher, Matthias A ^a,b   Grimm, Volker ^c,d,e   Thorbek, Pernille ^f   Horn, Juliane ^c   Kennedy, Peter J ^a,b   Osborne, Juliet L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Colony decline; Cross level interactions; Feedbacks; Foraging; Modelling; Multi agent simulation; Multiple stressors; Predictive systems ecology; Varroa destructor

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; COLONY STRUCTURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE; MITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STAKEHOLDER;

EUROPE;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 84896404046     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12222     Document Type: Article

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