A5091403204- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
2015-2024
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2015-2024
University of Helsinki
2015
Bee keeping is indispensable to global food production. It an alternate income source, especially in rural underdeveloped African settlements, and important forest conservation incentive. However, dwindling honeybee colonies around the world are attributed pests diseases whose spatial distribution influences not well established. In this study, we used remotely sensed data improve reliability of pest ecological niche (EN) models attain reliable maps. Occurrence on four (Aethina tumida,...
Knowledge of the floral cycle and spatial distribution abundance flowering plants is important for bee health studies to understand relationship between landscape hive productivity honey flow. The key objective this study was show how AISA Eagle hyperspectral data random forest (RF) can be optimally utilized produce spatially explicit land use/land cover (LULC) maps a site in Kenya. imagery captured at early period (January 2014) peak season (February 2013). Data on white yellow trees as...
Stingless/meliponine bees are eusocial insects whose polylactic nature enables interaction with a wide variety of wild plants and crops that enhance pollination and, hence, support ecosystem services. However, their true potential regarding services honey production is yet to be fully recognized. Worldwide, there over 800 species meliponine bees, 20 documented on the African continent. Out these, only 12 have been well in Kenya. Moreover, interest has increased amid climate change,...
Bee farming and beehealth are threatened by climate change, agricultural agrochemicals intensification, bee pests diseases. Among these threats, have particularly been identified as a major obstacle to beehealth. Although previous studies endeavoured establish pests' spatial distribution, their seasonal abundance in the landscape remains poorly understood. Hence, this study sought determine factors that influence proliferation of Kenya. Abundance data on Varroa destructor, Oplostomus...
Abstract Pollination services and honeybee health in general are important the African savannahs particularly to farmers who often rely on products as a supplementary source of income. Therefore, it is imperative understand floral cycle, abundance spatial distribution melliferous plants savannah landscapes. Furthermore, placement apiaries landscapes could benefit from information spatiotemporal patterns flowering plants, by optimising honeybees’ foraging behaviours, which improve apiary...
Pollination services and honeybee health in general are important the African savannahs particularly to farmers who often rely on products as a supplementary source of income. Therefore, it is imperative understand floral cycle, abundance spatial distribution melliferous plants savannah landscapes. Furthermore, placement apiaries landscapes could benefit from information spatiotemporal patterns flowering plants, by optimising honeybees’ foraging behaviours, which improve apiary productivity....