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I visited the site continuously two days in a raw for continuous observations on July 25th and July 26th. As I mentioned in my first blog entry a specific interest was drawn to the local pollinator community. By the recommendation of local bee farmer, the time frame for observation was chosen to be between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to observe adult individuals and then 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. to observe the training flights of the young.
The second flower garden was also observed on the territory of the island, as well as two other parks belonging to Kamloops were observed in order to formulate an adequate hypothesis. Two additional sites were the city parks. McDonald park is located in a suburb area without any corridors separating it from suburbs. Riverside park is located beside the business district and is a highly disturbed area with the busy railway tracks adjacent to the park. Species richness and abundance varied among the sites, but points within the site seem to correlate with each other in richness. It seems like there could be an interesting correlation between pollinators abundance and richness, and the surrounding area of the park where data is collected. Therefore, hypothesis to be tested is that Pollinators abundance and richness will vary among the sites that represent different levels of urbanization. With the higher level of development (concrete to green cover ratio, amount of human disturbance) pollinators communities are going to have decreased abundance and richness. One point to be noted is that there are many studies present about bees being attracted to the suburb areas because of high density of flowering plants in gardens. Therefore, it will be specifically interesting to see the pollinators response to the fact that one of the parks is separated from the suburbs by 4-meter stream and therefore is an island. The response variable will be the number of species observed at a site and number of individuals within each species. This variable is continuous.
The explanatory variable in this case will be the amount of development adjacent to the site, it will be a categorical variable consisting of two parameters concrete to green cover ratio, amount of human disturbance and will be represented on the scale from high and low.
good research with the local community
also lovely photos but I had to delete some because they were very large. In future, reduce the photo size by taking a screenshot and uploading that, or reduce resolution so file is smaller. Please see comment on front page.
I apologize about that mistake, I will make sure that it won’t happen again.
Thank you for noticing!