Bee World, Volume 99, Issue 1 is a special issue on the honey bee research association COLOSS.
This issue contains 11 articles written by key members of all COLOSS core projects and task forces.
Thanks to some authors institutions and the support of COLOSS all articles are permanently freely available and can be found here.
We also want to thank Taylor and Francis for the good cooperation.
The (guest) editorial of the Bee World special issue on COLOSS by Robert Brodschneider, James D. Ellis & Peter Neumann can be found here and includes an overview of the association and previews on the content of the full issue.
The supplementary material to the editorial is a bibliography of 42 essential COLOSS research articles!
Author: RobertBrodschneider
http://www.bienenstand.at RB is engaged in research on the honey bee.
His major research interests are: Fundamental research in physiology - metabolism - behavior - nutrition of social insects - the honey bee in particular.
Since 2008 coordinator of the survey of winter losses of honey bee colonies in Austria - research on identification of associated risk factors and on colony dynamics.
Since 2013 executive committee member of COLOSS (www.coloss.org).
Since 2014 Co-chair of the international Colony losses monitoring group of COLOSS - together with Alison Gray.
Experience in citizen science projects: C.S.I. Pollen - Citizen scientist investigation on pollen diversity forage available to honey bees. An international study coordinated by Sjef van der Steen and Robert Brodschneider.
Member of the Citizen Science Association (http://citizenscienceassociation.org).
Editor of Bee World (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbee20/current).
