Honey bee colony loss linked to parasites, pesticides and extreme weather across the United States.

ABSTRACT: Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony loss is a widespread phenomenon with important economic and biological implications, whose drivers are still an open matter of investigation. We contribute to this line of research through a large-scale, multi-variable study combining multiple publicly accessible data sources. Specifically, we analyzed quarterly data covering the contiguous United States for the years 2015-2021, and combined open data on honey bee colony status and stressors, weather data, and land use. The different spatio-temporal resolutions of these data are addressed through an up-scaling approach that generates additional statistical features which capture more complex distributional characteristics and significantly improve modeling performance. Treating this expanded feature set wi

SUBMITTER: Insolia L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9714769 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature