Long-term spatiotemporal patterns in the number of colonies and honey production in Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Honey bee decline is currently one of the world's most serious environmental issues, and scientists, governments, and producers have generated interest in understanding its causes and consequences in honey production and food supply. Mexico is one of the world's top honey producers, however, the honey bee population's status has not been documented to date. Based on 32 years of data from beekeeping, we make a country-level assessment of honey bee colony trends in Mexico. We use generalized additive mixed models to measure the associations between the percent change in honey bee hives and the percent change in honey yield per hive in relation to land-use, climate, and socioeconomic conditions. Despite the fact that the average annual yield per hive increased from 1980 to 2012, we detected a

SUBMITTER: Balvino-Olvera FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9849204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature