Predicting Honeybee Colony Failure: Using the BEEHAVE Model to Simulate Colony Responses to Pesticides

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 12879-12887

  Rumkee, Jack C O ^a   Becher, Matthias A ^a   Thorbek, Pernille ^b   Kennedy, Peter J ^a   Osborne, Juliet L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; COMPARATIVE INDEX; HONEYBEE COLONIES; LAYING RATES; LIFE STAGES; MODEL SIMULATION; PROTECTION GOALS; SMALL FLUCTUATION;

PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDE; NECTAR;

ADULT; COLONIZATION; COLONY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; HONEYBEE; LARVA; MORTALITY; NECTAR; PESTICIDE; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FORAGER; LARVA; LD50; MORTALITY; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POLLEN; STRESS; ANIMAL; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BEES; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PESTICIDES; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84946761780     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03593     Document Type: Article

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