From corrections on my previous, I made my table using the average temperature of the week I experimented instead of one particular day. I counted the number of Birdsfoot trefoil plants that were still bearing leaves at the time over 7 weeks as the temperature dropped and its typical growing period passed.
Did you have any difficulties organizing, aggregating, or summarizing your data?
- Summarizing my data was difficult because I initially did more than 5 replicates but had to document only 5 as per the instructions. I also initially wanted to count all the flowers but decided to count the plants with flowers on them to avoid errors. Also, if I counted all the leaves, I would have needed to experiment for longer intervals.
- A difficulty I encountered was avoiding casting my quadrat too close together. I thought of throwing it but I didn’t want it to break, so I just picked random spots far from each other to stand to cast the quadrat on the field.
Was the outcome as you expected?
- The outcome was as I expected, as the temperature dropped, the leaves of trefoil died off because the plant blooms in the summer months.
Did your data reveal anything unexpected or give you any ideas for further exploration?
- From comments under my previous work, I realized that the leaves falling does not mean the plant is dead. Trefoil is a perennial plant so its roots are still in the soil and when the weather id favourable again, it will bloom and bear leaves and flowers.