| Title: | The role of disease in bee foraging ecology |
| Author(s): | Koch H; Brown MJ; Stevenson PC; |
| Address: | "Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, UK. Electronic address: H.Koch@kew.org. School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, UK; Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Kent, UK" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cois.2017.05.008 |
| Abstract: | "Diseases have important but understudied effects on bee foraging ecology. Bees transmit and contract diseases on flowers, but floral traits including plant volatiles and inflorescence architecture may affect transmission. Diseases spill over from managed or invasive pollinators to native wild bee species, and impacts of emerging diseases are of particular concern, threatening pollinator populations and pollination services. Here we review how parasites can alter the foraging behaviour of bees by changing floral preferences and impairing foraging efficiency. We also consider how changes to pollinator behaviours alter or reduce pollination services. The availability of diverse floral resources can, however, ameliorate bee diseases and their impacts through better nutrition and antimicrobial effects of plant compounds in pollen and nectar" |
| Keywords: | Animal Diseases/microbiology/transmission/virology Animals *Appetitive Behavior Bees/*microbiology/physiology/*virology Ecosystem Flowers Magnoliopsida Pollination; |
| Notes: | "MedlineKoch, Hauke Brown, Mark Jf Stevenson, Philip C eng BB/N000668/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review Netherlands 2017/08/22 Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2017 Jun; 21:60-67. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2017.05.008. Epub 2017 Jun 2" |
