Urban beekeeping and sustainability

Abstract

This paper discusses the weaknesses of an article addressing the sustainability of urban beekeeping in Switzerland. I show that some absolute figures cannot be reproduced using their supplementary material and that their simulations do not respect the internal constraints of their model. I also question the conceptual framework of their study and conclude that the results do not support the authors’ conclusions.

Keywords:

• Beekeeping
• Sustainability
• hive density
• Switzerland

Aknowledgments

I am very grateful to anonymous reviewers for constructive comments and remarks. Open access publication was supported by the Société romande d‘apiculture and BienenSchweiz.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.