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1 electronic resource (xiii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Chapter 1. Automatic systems for capturing the normal and abnormal behaviors of honey bees / James Devillers and Hugo Devillers -- chapter 2. Computational modeling of organization in honey bee societies based on adaptive role allocation / Mark Hoogendoorn, Martijn C. Schut, and Jan Treur -- chapter 3. Illustrating the contrasting roles of self-organization in biological systems with two case histories of collective decision making in the honey bee / Brian R. Johnson -- chapter 4. Models for the recruitment and allocation of honey bee foragers / Mary R. Myerscough, James R. Edwards, and Timothy M. Schaerf -- chapter 5. Infectious disease modeling for honey bee colonies / Hermann J. Eberl, Peter G. Kevan, and Vardayani Ratti -- chapter 6. Honey bee ecology from an urban landscape perspective : the spatial ecology of feral honey bees / Kristen A. Baum, Maria D. Tchakerian, Andrew G. Birt, and Robert N. Coulson -- chapter 7. QSAR modeling of pesticide toxicity to bees / James Devillers -- chapter 8. Mathematical models for the comprehension of chemical contamination into the hive / Paolo Tremolada and Marco Vighi -- chapter 9. Agent-based modeling of the long-term effects of pyriproxyfen on honey bee population / James Devillers, Hugo Devillers, Axel Decourtye, Julie Fourrier, Pierrick Aupinel, and Dominique Fortini -- chapter 10. Simulation of solitary (non-apis) bees competing for pollen / Jeroen Everaars and Carsten F. Dormann -- chapter 11. Estimating the potential range expansion and environmental impact of the invasive bee-hawking hornet, vespa velutina nigrithorax / Claire Villemant, Franck Muller, Quentin Rome, Adrien Perrard, Morgane Barbet-Massin, and Frédéric Jiguet. |
| Summary |
Bees are critically important for ecosystem function and biodiversity maintenance through their pollinating activity. Unfortunately, bee populations are faced with many threats, and evidence of a massive global pollination crisis is steadily growing. As a result, there is a need to understand and, ideally, predict how bees respond to pollution disturbance, to the changes over landscape gradients, and how their responses can vary in different habitats, which are influenced to different degrees by human activities. Modeling approaches are useful to simulate the behavior of whole population dynamics as well as to focus on important phenomena detrimental to bee-life history traits. They also allow simulation of how a disease or a pesticide can impact the survival and growth of a bee population. In Silico Bees provides a collection of computational methods to those primarily interested in the study of the ecology, ethology, and ecotoxicology of bees. The book presents different cases studies to enable readers to understand the significance and also the limitations of models in theoretical and applied bee research. The text covers modeling of honey bee society organization, infectious diseases in colonies, pesticide toxicity, chemical contamination of the hive, and more. Written by an international team of scientists, this book is of primary interest to those whose research or professional activity is directly concerned with the study of bees. It is also intended to provide graduate and post-graduate students with a clear and accessible text covering the main types of modeling approaches that can be used in terrestrial ecology and ecotoxicology. FEATURES: --Compiles extensive data and information on bees; --Explores diverse modeling techniques; --Discusses applications in ecology, ethology, and ecotoxicology; --Encourages the continued use of modeling approaches in theoretical and applied bee research; --Presents information in a user-friendly way, making it accessible to readers without modeling experience; --Includes contributions by leading experts in their field; --Describes QSAR modeling of pesticide toxicity; --Explores models for recruitment and allocation of honey bee foragers; --Examines honey bee ecology in the urban landscape. EDITOR: James Devillers has authored/edited 15 books and published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in QSAR and (eco)toxicology modeling. He is editor-in-chief of the journal SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research (Taylor & Francis) and editor of the series of books QSAR in Environmental and Health Sciences (CRC Press). Publisher's note. |
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Honeybee -- Behavior -- Mathematical models.
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Honeybee -- Effect of chemicals on -- Mathematical models.
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Abeille -- Mœurs et comportement -- Modèles mathématiques. |
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Abeille -- Effets des produits chimiques sur -- Modèles mathématiques. |
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Devillers, James, 1956- editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: In silico bees Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, [2014] 9781466517875 (DLC) 2013030987 |
| ISBN |
9780429185137 (electronic bk.) |
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0429185138 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306410236 (MyiLibrary) |
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1306410231 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781466517882 (eBook) |
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1466517883 (eBook) |
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9781138374706 |
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1138374709 |
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KE86630 |
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9781466517882 |
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