Reflecting on the field experiment and carrying it out I feel that it was missing many variables in data collection. In future I would study multiple parameters that I felt had influence on the species of study, if I was studying another species. I would collect data on the multiple parameters and compare their commonalities to get a more accurate answer to a hypothesis.
Engaging in the practice of ecology has definitely given me a greater appreciation of how ecological theory is developed. Prior to this course I didn’t give much thought to the way data and studies were collected and performed, I envisioned more of a collecting numbers of a species in a certain area and composing a graph which this is one method. I was not aware of how many sampling methods were used depending on if you are collecting categorical information or continous.