title: A prospective biomonitoring campaign with honey bees in a district of upper-bavaria (Germany).
abstract: In order to establish a monitoring method to track long term changes of the amount of anthropogenic contamination in a district of Bavaria (Germany), a biomonitoring campaign with honey bees was performed in spring 2002. Expected anomalies from the industry or from residential areas in the sampled district could not be detected. An anomaly over a considerable part of the sampling area correlating with other phenomena lead to the hypothesis of a prehistoric cosmic impact. Moreover a principal component analysis of the data showed evidence for a biogenic, an anthropogenic and an unknown component hypothetically related to a possible cosmic impact.
authors.affiliation: InfraServ Gendorf, 84508, Burgkirchen, Germany. raey@gendorf.de
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Raeymaekers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005426:Flight, Animal; D005843:Geography; D005858:Germany; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D014131:Trace Elements / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D014131:Trace Elements