An Evaluation of the BEEHAVE Model Using Honey Bee Field Study Data: Insights and Recommendations.

ABSTRACT: A lack of standard and internationally agreed procedures for higher-tier risk assessment of plant protection products for bees makes coherent availability of data, their interpretation, and their use for risk assessment challenging. Focus has been given to the development of modeling approaches, which in the future could fill this gap. The BEEHAVE model, and its submodels, is the first model framework attempting to link 2 processes vital for the assessment of bee colonies: the within-hive dynamics for honey bee colonies and bee foraging in heterogeneous and dynamic landscapes. We use empirical data from a honey bee field study to conduct a model evaluation using the control data set. Simultaneously, we are testing several model setups for the interlinkage between the within-hive dynamics a

SUBMITTER: Agatz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856857 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature