ArticleHeliyon2021
Disentangling multiple PM emission sources in the Po Valley (Italy) using honey bees.
Article in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Review
- Heavy metal pollution from a shooting range revealed by honeybees.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025Article
- Environmental pollution effect on honey bees and their derived products: a comprehensive analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Review
- The use of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) to monitor airborne particulate matter and assess health effects on pollinators.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Review
- Air pollution modifies colonisation factors in beneficial symbiont Snodgrassella and disrupts the bumblebee gut microbiome.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial-Resistant Environmental Bacteria Isolated Using a Network of Honey Bee Colonies (Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Article
- Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Honey BeeBiology · 2022Review
- Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies as bioindicators of environmental SARS-CoV-2 occurrence.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of airborne chemical compounds commonly classified by their aerodynamic diameter. Although PM toxicity strongly depends on the morphology, chemical composition, and dimensions of particles, exposure limits set by environmental organisations only refer to the mean mass concentration of PM sampled daily or annually by monitoring stations. In this study, we used honey bees as sensors of airborne PM
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