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Graph Theoretical Modelling and Analysis of Fragile Honey Bee Pollination Network


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1 National Centre of Excellence, Statistical and Mathematical Modelling on Bioresources Management (MHRD), Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, India
2 Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021, India
3 Department of Mathematics,Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, India
 

Due to environmental stress honey bees frequently make foraging shifts. Encounter with any nonflowering agent during such shifts leads to colony collapse. To assess the impact of non-flowering agents in the pollination network, we have modelled the pollination network as polligraphs using graph theoretical tools. Based on the outcome of the model we have extracted a few new network parameters and characterized the stability of the pollination network.

Keywords

Honey Bees, Non-Flowering Agent, Polligraph, Pollination Network.
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Authors

D. Pandiaraja
National Centre of Excellence, Statistical and Mathematical Modelling on Bioresources Management (MHRD), Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, India
N. Arun Nagendran
National Centre of Excellence, Statistical and Mathematical Modelling on Bioresources Management (MHRD), Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, India
S. Chandrasekaran
Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021, India
R. P. Aditya
Department of Mathematics,Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, India

Abstract


Due to environmental stress honey bees frequently make foraging shifts. Encounter with any nonflowering agent during such shifts leads to colony collapse. To assess the impact of non-flowering agents in the pollination network, we have modelled the pollination network as polligraphs using graph theoretical tools. Based on the outcome of the model we have extracted a few new network parameters and characterized the stability of the pollination network.

Keywords


Honey Bees, Non-Flowering Agent, Polligraph, Pollination Network.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv107%2Fi12%2F1988-1996