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    Urban Honey Bees and Forage: The Ecological Dimension of Disinvested Neighborhoods in Philadelphia, USA

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    Date
    2020
    Author
    Martin, Austin
    Advisor
    Pearsall, Hamil
    Group
    Temple University. Office of Sustainability
    Department
    Geography and Urban Studies
    Subject
    Sustainability
    Honey bees
    Conservation
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7765
    Abstract
    With bee decline underway across taxa on a global scale, cities increasingly stand as a haven for bee conservation. Primary drivers of bee decline include habitat fragmentation and high-input agricultural and lawn management – both of which can make non-urban landscapes more hostile to bees than urban landscapes. In this analysis, I draw from urban ecological methods and political ecological framings to better understand the urban landscape as a bee socio-economic system. Using data from the unique honey bee foraging assay of Sponsler et al. (2020) which describes plant genera identified from pollen DNA samples from apiaries across the city, I offer a geospatial analysis to describe spatial patterns of bee floral resources. I ask the following: I) What spatial patterns exist in floral resources for bees across the landscape of the city of Philadelphia? II) Do these spatial patterns correlate with the socio-economic variables of income and racial composition? and II) To what extent can urban ecology and the critical social sciences inform one another in the context of this socio-ecological system? Although I find no strong correlation between plant richness and demographic variables, I examine the dominant plant genera in select Philadelphia neighborhoods, contributing to urban political ecological understandings of weedy ecologies, marginalization, and social control.
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    This report was submitted to the Office of Sustainability at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 Graduate Research Award Sustainability Program (GRASP) award period. GRASP advances Temple University’s goal of expanding sustainability research by providing funding to a graduate student research project focused on sustainability.
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    Available at: https://sustainability.temple.edu/sites/sustainability/files/Martin.Austin_GRASP_FINAL.pdf
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