ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e115172
The impacts of multiple stressors on managed bees: Novel insights from the PoshBee project
Mark Brown‡, Matthias Albrecht§, Pilar De la Rúa|, Sara Hellström¶, Alexandra-Maria Klein#, Denis Michez¤, Francesco Nazzi«, Robert Paxton», Edward Straw‡, Dimitry Wintermantel˄, Simon Potts˅‡ Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom§ WBF-Agroscope: Agroscope, Eidgenössisches Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung, Zurich, Switzerland| Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain¶ Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany# University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany¤ University of Mons, Bruxelles, Belgium« University of Udine, Udine, Italy» Halle University, Halle, Germany˄ Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany˅ University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Simon Potts ( s.g.potts@reading.ac.uk ) © Mark Brown, Matthias Albrecht, Pilar De la Rúa, Sara Hellström, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Denis Michez, Francesco Nazzi, Robert Paxton, Edward Straw, Dimitry Wintermantel, Simon Potts. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Brown M, Albrecht M, De la Rúa P, Hellström S, Klein A-M, Michez D, Nazzi F, Paxton R, Straw E, Wintermantel D, Potts S (2023) The impacts of multiple stressors on managed bees: Novel insights from the PoshBee project. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e115172 |  |
Abstract
Managed bees and other pollinators are exposed to a wide variety of stressors and these often act in combination. Historically, most risk assessments and research have focused on the impacts of individual stressors on honey bees. However, there is broad scientific consensus that there is a need for a systems-based risk assessment approach and a post-approval monitoring system. This should consider: multiple interacting stressors; a variety of pollinator species (including different subspecies, sexes, castes and life history stages); field studies as well as laboratory studies; and a diversity of end-points (molecular, physiological, behavioural, developmental, reproductive and colony health). The PoshBee project has made a significant step in our understanding of how the interactions between agrochemicals, pathogens and nutrition impact different bee species.
Keywords
Pollinators, Bees,