TY - CHAP
T1 - Honey bee nutritional ecology
T2 - From physiology to landscapes
AU - Quinlan, Gabriela M.
AU - Grozinger, Christina M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to members of the Grozinger lab and Penn State Center for Pollinator Research for insightful discussions on bee nutritional ecology that contributed to this review. GMQ is supported by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. This material is based upon work supported by the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology Program under Grant No. 2109109. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation . Further support was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Hatch Appropriations under Project # PEN04716 and Accession #1020527.
Funding Information:
We are grateful to members of the Grozinger lab and Penn State Center for Pollinator Research for insightful discussions on bee nutritional ecology that contributed to this review. GMQ is supported by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. This material is based upon work supported by the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology Program under Grant No. 2109109. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Further support was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Hatch Appropriations under Project #PEN04716 and Accession #1020527.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
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
T3 - Advances in Insect Physiology
BT - Advances in Insect Physiology
PB - Academic Press Inc.
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