Using BEEHAVE to explore pesticide protection goals for European honeybee (Apis melifera L.) worker losses at different forage qualities

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 254-264

  Thorbek, Pernille ^a   Campbell, Peter J ^a   Sweeney, Paul J ^a   Thompson, Helen M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Landscape ecology; Mechanistic effect model; Pesticide risk assessment; Pollinator; Population modeling; Population level effects

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MECHANISTIC EFFECTS; PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT; POLLINATOR; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION-LEVEL EFFECTS;

PESTICIDE EFFECTS;

PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

COLONY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; GUIDELINE; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLINATOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY; WORKER CASTE;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FORAGE; FORAGE QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; OVERWINTERING; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; BEE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; TOXICITY;

EUROPE;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 84989253957     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.3504     Document Type: Article

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