About My Project

This project seeks to look at how various aspects of the landscape affect bumblebee visits. This is especially important given that bumblebee populations have been in decline, and that our native bumblebee, Bombus occidentalis, is seemingly quite rare. My focus is to see how edge density (the amount of edge between two different land covers per unit area, eg road vs trees) and the types of edges affect bumblebee visits. To do this, I will generate Land use/ land cover maps and pair it with data from the Urban Pollination Project, of which I am part of. This blog will serve to document the process of making my project.