BEEHAVE: a systems model of honeybee colony dynamics and foraging to explore multifactorial causes of colony failure
- BEEHAVE offers a valuable tool for researchers to design and focus field experiments, for regulators to explore the relative importance of stressors to devise management and policy advice and for beekeepers to understand and predict varroa dynamics and effects of management interventions. We expect that scientists and stakeholders will find a variety of applications for BEEHAVE, stimulating further model development and the possible inclusion of other stressors of potential importance to honeybee colony dynamics.
| Author details: | Matthias A. Becher, Volker GrimmORCiDGND, Pernille Thorbek, Juliane Horn, Peter J. Kennedy, Juliet L. Osborne |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12222 |
| ISSN: | 0021-8901 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2664 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of applied ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publishing: | Hoboken |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2014 |
| Publication year: | 2014 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | Apis mellifera; Varroa destructor; colony decline; cross-level interactions; feedbacks; foraging; modelling; multi-agent simulation; multiple stressors; predictive systems ecology |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 13 |
| First page: | 470 |
| Last Page: | 482 |
| Funding institution: | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK [BB/H00114X]; Syngenta |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
