Jürgen Groeneveld‡, Tomáš Martinovič§, Tuomas Rossi|, Ondrej Salamon§, Kata Sara-aho¶, Volker Grimm‡Corresponding author: Jürgen Groeneveld ( juergen.groeneveld@ufz.de ) © Jürgen Groeneveld, Tomáš Martinovič, Tuomas Rossi, Ondrej Salamon, Kata Sara-aho, Volker Grimm. 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:
Groeneveld J, Martinovič T, Rossi T, Salamon O, Sara-aho K, Grimm V (2024) Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: Honey Bees in Agricultural Landscapes. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e124639 |  |
Honey bees are vital to human well-being and are under multiple stresses. We need to be able to assess the viability and productivity of honey bee colonies in different landscapes and under different management and climate change scenarios. We have developed a prototype digital twin, HONEYBEE-pDT, based on the BEEHAVE model, which simulates foraging, population dynamics and Varroa mite infestation of a single honey bee colony. The main input data are land cover maps and daily weather data. Users can run the pDT for a specific site or for larger areas, up to the whole of Germany. Hive weight data from hundreds of hives will be used for calibration and validation.