Neonicotinoids impact bumblebee colony fitness in the field; a reanalysis of the UK's Food & Environment Research Agency 2012 experiment.
Neonicotinoids impact bumblebee colony fitness in the field; a reanalysis of the UK's Food & Environment Research Agency 2012 experiment.
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Goulson D
蜜蜂数量下降的原因仍然存在激烈的争论，特别是类烟碱杀虫剂的作用。2013年，英国食品与环境研究署公布了一项关于大黄蜂群体暴露于类烟碱的影响的研究。该研究的结论是，菌落性能和农药暴露之间没有明确的关系，该研究随后被英国政府在一份政策文件中引用，以支持他们投票反对暂停使用某些类尼古丁的提议。在这里，我提出了一个简单的重新分析这个数据集。这表明，这些数据实际上确实显示了蜂群生长和蜂王生产与蜜蜂收集的食物储存中的类烟碱水平之间的负相关关系。事实上，这是第一项描述类烟碱对任何蜂种与自由飞行蜜蜂在田间现实情况下的群体性能产生实质性负面影响的研究，其中农药暴露仅作为正常农业实践的一部分提供。这强烈表明，农田中的野生大黄蜂群体可能会受到暴露于类烟碱的不利影响。
The causes of bee declines remain hotly debated, particularly the contribution of neonicotinoid insecticides. In 2013 the UK’s Food & Environment Research Agency made public a study of the impacts of exposure of bumblebee colonies to neonicotinoids. The study concluded that there was no clear relationship between colony performance and pesticide exposure, and the study was subsequently cited by the UK government in a policy paper in support of their vote against a proposed moratorium on some uses of neonicotinoids. Here I present a simple re-analysis of this data set. It demonstrates that these data in fact do show a negative relationship between both colony growth and queen production and the levels of neonicotinoids in the food stores collected by the bees. Indeed, this is the first study describing substantial negative impacts of neonicotinoids on colony performance of any bee species with free-flying bees in a field realistic situation where pesticide exposure is provided only as part of normal farming practices. It strongly suggests that wild bumblebee colonies in farmland can be expected to be adversely affected by exposure to neonicotinoids.
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关于新烟碱杀虫剂和昆虫授粉剂的自然科学证据基础的重述。
DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2014.0558
发表时间：
2014-07-07
期刊：
Proceedings. Biological sciences
影响因子：
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作者：
Godfray HC;Blacquière T;Field LM;Hails RS;Petrokofsky G;Potts SG;Raine NE;Vanbergen AJ;McLean AR
通讯作者：
McLean AR
影响因子：
2.7
作者：
Feltham, Hannah;Park, Kirsty;Goulson, Dave
通讯作者：
Goulson, Dave
影响因子：
5.2
作者：
Gill, Richard J.;Raine, Nigel E.
通讯作者：
Raine, Nigel E.
影响因子：
4.8
作者：
Osborne, Juliet L.;Martin, Andrew P.;Sanderson, Roy A.
通讯作者：
Sanderson, Roy A.
影响因子：
11.4
作者：
Stewart, Scott D.;Lorenz, Gus M.;Barber, Jonathan
通讯作者：
Barber, Jonathan