Hello,
I visited the Forest Lake at the University of Manitoba on the 24th of September at 1:00 pm with a degree of +16. The weather was cloudy after a bit of rain, the topography of the location is a downward slope with lots of trees facing the lake and various tress types and vegetation such as Manitoba maple, Amur maple, tall grass prairie, curly dock, and so on.
On the lake, there were a couple of geese swinging along with their offspring. The soli were dark and a bit muddy due to the rain in the morning it had some fallen trees and I stopped two squires, one climbing up a tree and another running on the ground.
Three questions that interest me are;
How the tress changes colour in response to light exposure.
The rate at which different leaves begin to fall.
Are there other factors that can cause changes in tree colour.
Hi, it sounds like a great study site. Your post could have used a bit more description of the vegetation and topography. How steep is the downward slope and is the whole area around the lake like that. Is it a natural forest all around the lake? And what about trails?
Your questions are all about leaves turning and it would be good for you to start more broadly and think of some other questions. These questions could be tricky to answer as leaves may fall quickly in a wind storm regardless of species and they may end up turning and falling before you can complete your data collection.
Thanks for the input, I was struggling a bit to think of how I could answer the question and how to come up with a hypothesis so I decided to think of some other question, like the rate at which two different species begin to change their leave color rather than falling based sun exposure and the weather change. I have selected two other different locations, one at the first lake which is a bit more open field and has constant light exposure, and the other in an urban area that has tall buildings that sort of provide shade to the trees and obstruct the sunlight. I would really like your input on what you think of this new idea or if there is more I could do.