The Impacts of Pesticides on Pollinators
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 9029
Special Issue Editors
Interests: honey bee nutrition; honey bee health; honey bee pollination
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Interests: honey bee nutrition; health; physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The impacts of pesticides on pollinators is a crucial global concern. Both acute and chronic exposure to pesticides may lead to long-term sublethal impacts on individual pollinators, as well as overall colony losses in managed bees. It is thus important to understand the physiological, behavioral, and molecular underpinnings to such exposures. Research from across the globe is needed on both managed and native bees, and it is crucial that we aim to understand the following: (1) the impacts of pesticides on pollinator health and functional biology; (2) the impacts on the biodiversity of pollinators in an agricultural landscape; and (3) the impacts of pesticides on pollinator behavioral alterations. In this Special Issue, we look forward to publishing original research articles pertaining to the above three research foci.
Dr. Ramesh Sagili
Dr. Priyadarshini Charabarti
Dr. Barbara Smith
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pesticides
- bees
- pollinators
- physiology
- molecular ecology
- ecotoxicology
- colony losses
- agricultural landscapes
- honey bees
- native bees
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