by Grace Twiston-Davies | Feb 27, 2018 | BEEHAVE, BEESCOUT, BumbleBEEHAVE
BEEHAVE model creator, Dr Matthias Becher has just started a prestigious six month Jerrold E. Marsden Fellowship at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto, Canada. Matthias was invited by Prof Hermann Eberl (University of Guelph),...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Jul 28, 2017 | Applications, BEEHAVE, BEESCOUT, BumbleBEEHAVE, Bumblebees, Honeybees, Impact
By Kathy Troke-Thomas Following on from a successful workshop at the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) conference, the BEEHAVE team are busy extending the real-world impact of our award winning bee behaviour, growth and survival models with the help...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Mar 28, 2017 | Applications, BEEHAVE, Honeybees
BEEHAVE model developer Matthias Becher recently gave a talk to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) about the potential use of BEEHAVE to investigate the effect of the predatory Asian hornet on honeybee colony survival. Matthias described how recent research...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Jan 27, 2017 | BEEHAVE, BEESCOUT
NetLogo 6 is now available with some useful new features such as the auto-completion of code and the option of collapsing procedures. However, there are a few problems and current users of BEEHAVE will need to do a small edit to the model before running BEEHAVE in the...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Sep 23, 2016 | BEEHAVE, Honeybees, Profiles
Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm is a world renowned Scientist at the Department of Ecological Modelling at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, and is Professor for Theoretical Ecology at the University of Potsdam. With over 14,000 citations...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Aug 22, 2016 | BEEHAVE, Honeybees, Profiles
Fabrice studies the many stressors that bees face in human-dominated landscapes. These include pesticide exposures, lack of flower resources, parasites, pathogens and climate changes. He is particularly interested in the adaptive responses of bees to those stressors....
