Bumble-BEEHAVE: A systems model for exploring multifactorial causes of bumblebee decline at individual, colony, population and community level.

ABSTRACT: World-wide declines in pollinators, including bumblebees, are attributed to a multitude of stressors such as habitat loss, resource availability, emerging viruses and parasites, exposure to pesticides, and climate change, operating at various spatial and temporal scales. Disentangling individual and interacting effects of these stressors, and understanding their impact at the individual, colony and population level are a challenge for systems ecology. Empirical testing of all combinations and contexts is not feasible. A mechanistic multilevel systems model (individual-colony-population-community) is required to explore resilience mechanisms of populations and communities under stress.We present a model which can simulate the growth, behaviour and survival of six UK bumblebee species living

SUBMITTER: Becher MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221040 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature