CUTOVERS AS POTENTIAL SUITABLE BEE HABITATS By
CUTOVERS AS POTENTIAL SUITABLE BEE HABITATS by Jasmine R. Pinksen A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science, Honours Environmental Science, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland April 2017 Corner Brook Newfoundland 2 Grenfell Campus Environmental Science Unit The undersigned certify that they have read, and recommend to the Environmental Science Unit (School of Science and the Environment) for acceptance, a thesis entitled “Cutovers as Potential Suitable Bee Habitats” submitted by Jasmine R. Pinksen in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science, Honours. _____________________________ Dr. Julie Sircom (thesis supervisor) _____________________________ Dr. Erin Fraser _____________________________ Dr. Joe Bowden April ____, 2017 3 Acknowledgements Thank you to the valuable research team members who helped with data collection for this project, Geena Arul Jothi, Megan Trotman, Tiffany Fillier, Erika Young, Nicole Walsh, and Abira Mumtaz. Thank you to Barry Elkins with Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Ltd. for financial support in 2015, maps of the logging areas around Corner Brook, NL, and his recommendations on site selection. Special thank you to my supervisor Dr. Julie Sircom, Dr. Erin Fraser and Dr. Joe Bowden for their feedback and support. 4 Abstract Bees are of great importance for pollinating agricultural crops and wild plant communities. Direct human activities such as urbanization, pesticide use, pollution, and introduction of species and pathogens as well as climate change are resulting in habitat loss and fragmentation for bees, causing declines in bee populations worldwide. Lack of suitable habitat is considered to be one of the main factors contributing to these declines.
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