1st Edition

In Silico Bees

Edited By James Devillers Copyright 2014
314 Pages 11 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

314 Pages 11 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Bees are critically important for ecosystem function and biodiversity maintenance through their pollinating activity. Unfortunately, bee populations are faced with many threats, and evidence of a massive global pollination crisis is steadily growing. As a result, there is a need to understand and, ideally, predict how bees respond to pollution disturbance, to the changes over landscape gradients,... Read more

Automatic Systems for Capturing the Normal and Abnormal Behaviors of Honey Bees
James Devillers and Hugo Devillers

Computational Modeling of Organization in Honey Bee Societies Based on Adaptive Role Allocation
Mark Hoogendoorn, Martijn C. Schut, and Jan Treur

Illustrating the Contrasting Roles of Self-Organization in Biological Systems with Two Case Histories of Collective Decision Making in the Honey Bee
Brian R. Johnson

Models for the Recruitment and Allocation of Honey Bee Foragers
Mary R. Myerscough, James R. Edwards, and Timothy M. Schaerf

Infectious Disease Modeling for Honey Bee Colonies
Hermann J. Eberl, Peter G. Kevan, and Vardayani Ratti

Honeybee Ecology from an Urban Landscape Perspective: The Spatial Ecology of Feral Honey Bees
Kristen A. Baum, Maria D. Tchakerian, Andrew G. Birt, and Robert N. Coulson

QSAR Modeling of Pesticide Toxicity to Bees
James Devillers

Mathematical Models for the Comprehension of Chemical Contamination into the Hive
Paolo Tremolada and Marco Vighi

Agent-Based Modeling of the Long-Term Effects of Pyriproxyfen on Honey Bee Population
James Devillers, Hugo Devillers, Axel Decourtye, Julie Fourrier, Pierrick Aupinel, and Dominique Fortini

Simulation of Solitary (non-Apis) Bees Competing for Pollen
Jeroen Everaars and Carsten F. Dormann

Estimating the Potential Range Expansion and Environmental Impact of the Invasive Bee-Hawking Hornet, Vespa velutina nigrithorax
Claire Villemant, Franck Muller, Quentin Rome, Adrien Perrard, Morgane Barbet-Massin, and Frédéric Jiguet

Biography

James Devillers has authored/edited 15 books and published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in QSAR and (eco)toxicology modeling. He is editor-in-chief of the journal SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research (Taylor & Francis) and editor of the series of books QSAR in Environmental and Health Sciences (CRC Press). James Devillers is also a member of the editorial boards of Ecological Modelling (Elsevier), Xenobiotica (Taylor & Francis), Current Bioactive Compounds (Bentham Science), and Toxics (MDPI AG).