dc.contributor.author | Bartlett, LJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Rozins, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Brosi, BJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Delaplane, KS | |
dc.contributor.author | de Roode, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | White, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilfert, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Boots, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-01T11:26:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07-16 | |
dc.description.abstract | 1) It is generally thought that the intensification of farming will result in higher disease prevalences,
although there is little specific modelling testing this idea. Focussing on honeybees, we build multi18 colony models to inform how ‘apicultural intensification’ is predicted to impact honeybee pathogen
epidemiology at the apiary scale.
2) We used both agent-based and analytical models to show that three linked aspects of apicultural
intensification (increased population sizes, changes in population network structure, and increased
between-colony transmission) are unlikely to greatly increase disease prevalence in apiaries.
Principally this is because even low-intensity apiculture exhibits high disease prevalence.
3) The greatest impacts of apicultural intensification are found for diseases with relatively low R0 (basic
reproduction number), however, such diseases cause little overall disease prevalence and therefore
the impacts of intensification are minor. Furthermore, the smallest impacts of intensification are for
diseases with high R0 values, which we argue are typical of important honeybee diseases.
4) Policy Implications: Our findings contradict the idea that apicultural intensification by crowding
honeybee colonies in large, dense apiaries leads to notably higher disease prevalences for
established honeybee pathogens. More broadly, our work demonstrates the need for informative
models of all agricultural systems and management practices in order to understand the implications
of management changes on diseases | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 16 July 2019. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/1365-2664.13461 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/L010879/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/37769 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Applied Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.subject | apiculture | en_GB |
dc.subject | beekeeping | en_GB |
dc.subject | agriculture | en_GB |
dc.subject | intensification | en_GB |
dc.subject | infectious disease | en_GB |
dc.subject | mathematical model | en_GB |
dc.subject | agriculture | en_GB |
dc.subject | disease prevalence | en_GB |
dc.title | Industrial bees: the impact of apicultural intensification on local disease 1 prevalence | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-01T11:26:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0021-8901 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Applied Ecology | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-06-28 | |
exeter.funder | ::Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-06-28 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-07-01T11:22:57Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-07-17T15:23:28Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |