مشروع البحث: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENHANCING HONEY BEE (Apis mellifera) NATURAL HABITATS
| dc.contributor.advisor | dr. Nikola Puvača, DVM, PhD | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-09T09:10:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-06-09T09:10:50Z | |
| dc.description | contrast, managed honey bees had a positive response to row-crop agriculture with higher populations and colony health in landscapes with more production of corn and soybean; however, these colonies ultimately declined in the late season, i.e., post-crop senescence. Diversified farming through fruit and vegetable production resulted in small increases in abundance and richness of a subset of the wild bee community during parts of the season. Honey bee colonies and individual bees were healthier on fruit and vegetable farms compared to monocrop soybeans; however, honey bees still declined in the late season. Native perennial habitat was able to mitigate late seasonhoney bee declines and may be a promising habitat type able to support both wild and managed bees in heavily cultivated row-crop agricultural systems. These studies underline the importance of landscape and farm diversity in supporting the health of honey bee (Apis mellifera). | |
| dc.description.abstract | Honey bee populations are declining across Europe with populations particularly at risk in the west where vast areas of land have been converted into extensive row-crop agricultural systems, resulting in homogenous landscapes with reduced forage availability. These declines are problematic as bees are an essential part of maintaining natural ecosystems, and honey bees contribute to the pollination of over a hundred crops. Vojvodina has been identified as a critical area for pollinator conservation and is an ideal location to study agriculture-related bee declines. This area represents a model landscape for other agricultural suitable parts and can be used to understand how bees respond to agricultural intensification and may provide valuable insights into the future of pollinator health. For this doctoral thesis, we examined the responses of both wild and managed bees to row-crop agriculture, by investigating population, colony, and individual metrics of health both longitudinally over time and spatially, across landscapes with different extents of agricultural industrialization. In addition, we explored two ways in which landscape diversity may help to mitigate bee health declines in monoculture crop landscapes: diversified fruit and vegetable farming, and perennial habitat. Overall, we found that landscape diversity, not honey bee presence, positively influence the wild bee community. | |
| dc.identifier | 1300 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.academy.edu.ly/handle/123456789/2237 | |
| dc.subject | APPROACHES IN ENHANCING | |
| dc.title | CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENHANCING HONEY BEE (Apis mellifera) NATURAL HABITATS | |
| dspace.entity.type | Project | |
| project.endDate | 2022 | |
| project.funder.name | البيئة للموارد الطبيعية | |
| project.investigator | ربيع الباشير محمد الحلفاوي | |
| project.startDate | 2021 |