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The Effect Of Neonicotinoids On Apis Mellifera: A Revisit, Qingchen Liang
The Effect Of Neonicotinoids On Apis Mellifera: A Revisit, Qingchen Liang
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Colony collapse disorder (CCD), which has caused high colony mortality rates in the European honeybee (Apis mellifera), is a pressing economical and ecological problem. I revisited Woodcock et al.'s (2017a) paper, "Country-specic Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticides on Honey Bees and Wild Bees", in light of unsound statistical methods used in the original study. In the first part of this paper, I attempted to replicate the analysis underlying key findings in the original paper. In the second part, I reanalyzed the data using mostly non-parametric methods in order to obtain robust results. I did not find any evidence for a harmful …