In silico bees

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, i...

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Other Authors: Devillers, James (Editor), Devillers, James, 1956- editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis 2014
[2014]
Edition:1st edition
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009534150106719
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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 popula
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780429185137
9781466517882