TY - CHAP
T1 - Honey bee nutritional ecology
T2 - From physiology to landscapes
AU - Quinlan, Gabriela M.
AU - Grozinger, Christina M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Understanding the nutritional ecology of honey bees (Apis mellifera), one of the most important and best-studied pollinators, requires an integrative understanding that spans the physiology of individual bees, colony-level dynamics, and environmental factors. In this review, we provide an overview of the factors affecting honey bee nutrition across these levels of organization with particular emphasis on how environmental threats (climate change, soil degradation, landscape simplification, land use change, and habitat degradation) affect honey bees and colonies. We suggest that each of these environmental threats works to further constrain nutritional availability for honey bees. We highlight future areas of study for nutritional ecology and environmental threats, including particularly wicked problems (issues that are extremely complex to solve given incomplete information and interconnected nature) such as climate change, as an area of emphasis for honey bee conservation.
AB - Understanding the nutritional ecology of honey bees (Apis mellifera), one of the most important and best-studied pollinators, requires an integrative understanding that spans the physiology of individual bees, colony-level dynamics, and environmental factors. In this review, we provide an overview of the factors affecting honey bee nutrition across these levels of organization with particular emphasis on how environmental threats (climate change, soil degradation, landscape simplification, land use change, and habitat degradation) affect honey bees and colonies. We suggest that each of these environmental threats works to further constrain nutritional availability for honey bees. We highlight future areas of study for nutritional ecology and environmental threats, including particularly wicked problems (issues that are extremely complex to solve given incomplete information and interconnected nature) such as climate change, as an area of emphasis for honey bee conservation.
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U2 - 10.1016/bs.aiip.2023.01.003
DO - 10.1016/bs.aiip.2023.01.003
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85148770317
SN - 9780443132490
T3 - Advances in Insect Physiology
SP - 289
EP - 345
BT - Environmental Threats to Pollinator Health and Fitness
A2 - Harrison, Jon F.
PB - Academic Press Inc.
ER -
