I encountered some difficulties when implementing my sampling strategy. The first difficulty was establishing transect lines. I planned to have the transect lines parallel to the pond at different distances, but since the pond is not a straight line, it took much more effort than I expected to get this done. The plants were tall and very dense in some areas, making it difficult to use the quadrat I had made. I had to improvise and use rope to create quadrats that I could place around the plants.
The data I collected was not surprising and it was what I had expected based on my initial observation of the site. I plan to continue gathering data using the same technique, and I predict that data collecting will go smoother in the future as I have attempted it once before.