TY - JOUR
T1 - Honey bee surveillance
T2 - A tool for understanding and improving honey bee health
AU - Lee, Kathleen
AU - Steinhauer, Nathalie
AU - Travis, Dominic A.
AU - Meixner, Marina D.
AU - Deen, John
AU - Vanengelsdorp, Dennis
PY - 2015/4/28
Y1 - 2015/4/28
N2 - Honey bee surveillance systems are increasingly used to characterize honey bee health and disease burdens of bees in different regions and/or over time. In addition to quantifying disease prevalence, surveillance systems can identify risk factors associated with colony morbidity and mortality. Surveillance systems are often observational, and prove particularly useful when searching for risk factors in real world complex systems. We review recent examples of surveillance systems with particular emphasis on how these efforts have helped increase our understanding of honey bee health.
AB - Honey bee surveillance systems are increasingly used to characterize honey bee health and disease burdens of bees in different regions and/or over time. In addition to quantifying disease prevalence, surveillance systems can identify risk factors associated with colony morbidity and mortality. Surveillance systems are often observational, and prove particularly useful when searching for risk factors in real world complex systems. We review recent examples of surveillance systems with particular emphasis on how these efforts have helped increase our understanding of honey bee health.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cois.2015.04.009
DO - 10.1016/j.cois.2015.04.009
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84929153322
SN - 2214-5745
VL - 10
SP - 37
EP - 44
JO - Current Opinion in Insect Science
JF - Current Opinion in Insect Science
ER -