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 | 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....
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Jul 21, 2016 | BEEHAVE, BEESCOUT, Honeybees, Outreach
By Tim Penny In the last week of May 2016, the BEEHAVE group had a great opportunity to display our models during the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) showcase. This was a two-day review of representative projects conducted by ESI staff encompassing the...