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Detecting varroosis using a gas sensor system as a way to face the environmental threat
- Source :
- The Science of the total environment. 722
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is an environmental threat on a global scale due to the irreplaceable role of bees in crop pollination. Varroa destructor (V.d.), a parasite that attacks honeybee colonies, is one of the primary causes of honey bee population decline and the most serious threat to the beekeeping sector. This work demonstrates the possibility of quantitatively determining bee colony infestation by V.d. using gas sensing. The results are based on analysing the experimental data acquired for eighteen bee colonies in field conditions. Their infestation rate was in the 0 to 24.76% range. The experimental data consisted of measurements of beehive air with a semiconductor gas sensor array and the results of bee colony V.d. infestation assessment using a flotation method. The two kinds of data were collected in parallel. Partial Least Square regression was applied to identify the relationship between the highly multivariate measurement data provided by the gas sensor array and the V.d. infestation rate. The quality of the developed quantitative models was very high, as demonstrated by the coefficient of determination exceeding R2 = 0.99. Moreover, the prediction error was
- Subjects :
- Beekeeping
Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Varroidae
010501 environmental sciences
medicine.disease_cause
01 natural sciences
Colony collapse disorder
Sensor array
Infestation
Statistics
medicine
Environmental Chemistry
Animals
Waste Management and Disposal
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Sensor system
Beehive
Colony Collapse
biology
Honey bee
Bees
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Varroa destructor
Environmental science
Seasons
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18791026
- Volume :
- 722
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Science of the total environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d2f90f5275cd8e48e84463bb350f9dcf