nader, elie abou kleftodimos, georgios kyrgiakos, leonidas sotirios kleisiari, christina gallai, nicola darwich, salem berchoux, tristan vlontzos, george belhouchette, hatem
The kiwi is a highly insect-pollinated dependent crop and is the cornerstone of the Greek agricultural sector, rendering the country as the fourth biggest kiwi producer worldwide, with an expected increase in national production the following years. This extensive transformation of the Greek arable land to Kiwi monocultures in combination with a wo...
Kleftodimos, Georgios
Recent years have witnessed a substantial decline of both managed and wild bees in Europe due to the increase of pesticides use. Hence, many European agricultural systems depend on the buy/rental of managed bees in order to maintain sufficient levels of pollination services. However, this substitution of wild bees by managed ones apart from costly ...
Kleftodimos, Georgios
The principal objective of the realized study is to evaluate the economic importance of the behavioral interactions which emerge from managed and wild bees, called bees’ complementarity in arable crop farms. A particular emphasis was placed on examining how the economic importance of bees’ complementarity should affect the public policy regulation ...
Kleftodimos, Georgios Gallai, Nicola
Le déclin annoncé des abeilles est le résultat de différents facteurs d'origines humaine et naturelle. Les politiques publiques agissent principalement sur deux facteurs humains : l'utilisation de produits phytosanitaires et l'état et l'évolution des habitats naturels. Ce chapitre est consacré à une discussion autour de ces politiques publiques. Au...
Rodet, Guy
Si nous voulions que l’Abeille fût indicatrice, au sens d’indicateur écologique, de quelque chose qui regarde l’humanité, par exemple de sa responsabilité vis-à-vis de la planète, eh bien nous sommes servis ! La recherche occidentale est aujourd’hui mobilisée pour empêcher la disparition de l’Abeille qui est l’abeille apicole, l’abeille domestique,...
Le Conte, Yves Brunet, Jean-Luc McDonnell, Cynthia Dussaubat, Claudia Alaux, Cédric
henry, Mickaël Fröchen, Marie Maillet-Mezeray, Julie Breyne, Elisabeth Allier, Fabrice Odoux, Jean Francois Decourtye, Axel
A substantial honeybee decline is being observed worldwide. Agricultural intensification and loss of wild floral resources rank among the main factors contributing to this decline. Landscape enhancement of floral resources has been proposed as an agro-environmental scheme intended to provide honeybees with compensatory food sources in intensive agr...
Aebi, Alexandre Vaissière, Bernard Vanengelsdorp, Dennis Delaplane, Keith Roubik, David W. Neumann, Peter
Letters
Alaux, Cédric Dantec, Christelle Parrinello, Hughes Le Conte, Yves
Published in
BMC Genomics
BackgroundMalnutrition is a major factor affecting animal health, resistance to disease and survival. In honey bees (Apis mellifera), pollen, which is the main dietary source of proteins, amino acids and lipids, is essential to adult bee physiological development while reducing their susceptibility to parasites and pathogens. However, the molecular...
Vidau, Cyril Diogon, Marie Aufauvre, Julie Fontbonne, Régis Viguès, Bernard Brunet, Jean-Luc Texier, Catherine Biron, David G Blot, Nicolas El Alaoui, Hicham
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Published in
PloS one
The honeybee, Apis mellifera, is undergoing a worldwide decline whose origin is still in debate. Studies performed for twenty years suggest that this decline may involve both infectious diseases and exposure to pesticides. Joint action of pathogens and chemicals are known to threaten several organisms but the combined effects of these stressors wer...
