In silico bees / / edited by James Devillers.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Boca Raton : : CRC Press,, [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1 Automatic Systems for Capturing the Normal and AbnormalBehaviors of Honey Bees; Chapter 2 Computational Modeling of Organization in Honey BeeSocieties Based on Adaptive Role Allocation; Chapter 3 Illustrating the Contrasting Roles of Self-Organization inBiological Systems with Two Case Histories of CollectiveDecision Making in the Honey Bee; Chapter 4 Models for the Recruitment and Allocation of Honey Bee Foragers; Chapter 5 Infectious Disease Modeling for Honey Bee Colonies
- Chapter 6 Honey Bee Ecology from an Urban Landscape Perspective:The Spatial Ecology of Feral Honey BeesChapter 7 QSAR Modeling of Pesticide Toxicity to Bees; Chapter 8 Mathematical Models for the Comprehension of ChemicalContamination into the Hive; Chapter 9 Agent-Based Modeling of the Long-Term Effects ofPyriproxyfen on Honey Bee Population; Chapter 10 Simulation of Solitary (Non-Apis) Bees Competing for Pollen; Chapter 11 Estimating the Potential Range Expansion and EnvironmentalImpact of the Invasive Bee-Hawking Hornet, Vespa velutinanigrithorax