City-Dwelling Bees: Urban Ecology and Urban Theory.
with Austin Martin
Explore the current understanding of bees in cities and how cities can serve as havens for bees in a national landscape replete with agriculture and toxic lawns.
Additional resources
- Paper by Doug Sponsler – used honey bee pollen DNA to describe the plants that grow in Philly throughout the seasons
- Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture by Hamil Pearsall and Christina Rosan – it covers some of the political economic challenges behind keeping urban agriculture viable in the city
- USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Photos – managed by Sam Droege (Flickr)
- Austin Martin’s master’s thesis on native bees in Detroit
- Blog posts by Austin Martin:
- Urban GIS, Land Cover, and Bees in the City: Digital Methods for Transdisciplinary Research
- Cities as Havens for Bees: Using Remote Sensing to Visualize Urban Bee Habitat
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