Create a final blog post that reflects on your field research. You both designed a field experiment and then carried it out. Did you have any issues with the implementation or have to make any changes to your design? Has engaging in the practice of ecology altered your appreciation for how ecological theory is developed?
- I wasn’t confident in the topic for my experiment at the beginning until September when I started seeing that though all plants react to weather change, my plant of choice for experiment was the first in the grassland I sampled to completely die off when the temperature dropped by a few degrees.t
- I knew I still had work to do looking for articles and research papers to backup my claims and further dig deep into any hidden concepts I may not have known at the time.
- If I started my experiment during the season of sprouting I would have gotten to see the seed pods.
- Research articles say they are perennials so I am wondering if when they dies off they scattered seed pods on the ground that get to germinate once winter is over. Some articles say the seed pods are brown so I may have missed it since the grass had turned brown and leaves had withered.
- From comments on my submitted work and when I started reading articles for my annotated bibliography, I realized that since birdsfoot trefoil is a perennial whose flowers flourish in the summer, it’s roots and part of the stem remains in the winter so it can flourish again the next years.
- I didn’t change my research when I found this out but it helped explain that the plant wasn’t completely dead but I was counting how many umbels of flowers I found. I preferred umbels instead of counting each flower because it is more efficient.