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Murphy, Atticus W.,

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The Gardening Bug and Gardens for Bugs: Urban Pollinator Gardening, Social Contagion, and Conservation /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Gardening Bug and Gardens for Bugs: Urban Pollinator Gardening, Social Contagion, and Conservation // Atticus W Murphy.
作者:	Murphy, Atticus W.,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (157 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-08B.
標題:	Ecology. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31564470
ISBN:	9798304915786

The Gardening Bug and Gardens for Bugs: Urban Pollinator Gardening, Social Contagion, and Conservation /
Murphy, Atticus W.,

The Gardening Bug and Gardens for Bugs: Urban Pollinator Gardening, Social Contagion, and Conservation /Atticus W Murphy. - 1 electronic resource (157 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: B.

As cities around the world grow, conservationists have become increasingly interested in ways to create habitat for animals in cities and also connect an increasingly urban-dwelling public with nature. Pollinator gardening, the practice of flower gardening to provide resources for insect pollinators, has become one of the more popular such urban conservation practices among both ecologists and the public. Despite the great promise of pollinator gardens, a great deal is unknown about their roles in the lives of insects and humans. In this dissertation, I study pollinator gardens to characterize their conceptual origins, spatial distribution, contagious properties, and ecological consequences for insects.I establish that pollinator gardening is a concept with its roots in a diffuse collaboration between many participants, including both ecologists and laypeople, and discuss the implications of this for conservation. I quantify pollinator gardening by creating a large data set of the locations of diverse flower gardens in the Boston metropolitan area, using imagery from Google Street View in combination with field surveys. I find flower gardens are rare, but more common in neighborhoods with small lot sizes, suggesting opportunities for urban conservation in dense urban areas. Furthermore, I test for social contagion in flower gardening, the process by which ideas and behaviors naturally spread through networks of people. I find strong evidence for contagion of flower gardening between nearby neighbors, in the form of highly localized clusters of flower gardens along streets. I explore the possible implications of this clustering from the perspective of insect ecology using simulations, as well as a field experiment with monarch butterflies and aphids. I find that contagion increases connectivity in urban landscapes, and this may have effects on insect habitat use. In sum, I find that front yard flower gardening is still uncommon, but is likely socially contagious, and that this pattern has implications for conservation and ecology. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach in order to understand both human social behavior and how these behaviors translate into effects on the urban landscape, I advance our understanding of pollinator gardens and urban ecology more broadly.

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ISBN: 9798304915786Subjects--Topical Terms:

516476
Ecology.
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Monarch butterfly

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