Multiple stressors: using the honeybee model BEEHAVE to explore how spatial and temporal forage stress affects colony resilience

Oikos

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1001-1016

  Horn, Juliane ^a   Becher, Matthias A ^c   Kennedy, Peter J ^c   Osborne, Juliet L ^c   Grimm, Volker ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTINCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MORTALITY; NECTAR; QUEEN; SURVIVAL;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 84949035240     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.02636     Document Type: Article

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