There is an ongoing negative trend on pollinator abundance worldwide due to different threats that affect their health and living conditions, such as pathogens and parasites in combination with different types of habitat loss among other factors. In this study I investigate if road verges adjacent to cycle paths could be a suitable environment for bumblebees (Bombus spp.) to thrive. 13 sites were sampled to find out what kind of diversity of bumblebees and flowering plants this type of habitat could hold by observing different aspects, e.g. shade and vegetation coverage together with species diversity and abundance. The results showed that shade coverage had an effect on the flower diversity at the sites and also that bumblebee species diversity as well as bumblebee abundance got affected by the diversity of flowers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-38432 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Svensson, Emma |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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