TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of disease in bee foraging ecology
AU - Koch, Hauke
AU - Brown, Mark JF
AU - Stevenson, Philip C.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - 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
AB - 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
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cois.2017.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.cois.2017.05.008
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85020653237
SN - 2214-5745
VL - 21
SP - 60
EP - 67
JO - Current Opinion in Insect Science
JF - Current Opinion in Insect Science
ER -