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A major landfill site in southern St. Catharines, Ontario, was closed in 2001 and turned into a park. Although bees had been eradicated from areas where garbage was collected, by spring 2003 the whole site was once again available for foraging and nesting bees. We compared bee abundance and diversity in newly available park meadows to meadows nearby, the most likely source of colonists for the newly available sites. Bee abundance and diversity in new sites increased rapidly, suggesting that bees can very rapidly occupy newly available habitats in cases where nearby source populations exist.
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This page is a summary of: Effect of meadow regeneration on bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) abundance and diversity in southern Ontario, Canada, The Canadian Entomologist, August 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.4039/tce.2013.42.
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