In Silico Bees

Download or read book In Silico Bees written by James Devillers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bees are critically important for ecosystem function and biodiversity maintenance through their pollinating activity. This book provides a collection of computational methods to those primarily interested in the study of the ecology, ethology, and ecotoxicology of bees. It presents numerous case studies to enable readers to understand the appropriateness but also the limitations of models in theoretical and applied bee research. Written by an international team of experts, this book covers the main types of modeling approaches that can be used in terrestrial ecology and applied ecotoxicology.