Ancillary patterns: Burdock mysteries

Sampling has been going well but I have discovered that chokecherry bushes extend through much of the creek areas and surrounding park and so I am re doing my quadrat…

Blog #6: Data Collection

Since blog post 5, I have completely changed my sampling approach, and have gone back to my original idea of looking at the vegetative structures/plant community structure between the north-…

Ongoing Field Data Collections

Today I returned to McNeill Bay to continue my data collection. It had been raining the past few days but had stopped for my trip and the weather was cloudy…

Turner’s Bog Data Collection

From March 28th to April 25th a total of 5 site visits and 16 sample plots were carried out. A quantitative analysis of species composition, abundance in percent cover, and…

Data collection from St. Vital park

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon with 8 degrees Celsius and 13 km/h wind on 27th April 2022 around 3pm. Apart from the 10 replicates done on 18th April (5…

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Mosquito Creek Park – Data Collection – Patterns and Reflection of Hypothesis

On April 24, 2022 I went back to Mosquito Creek Park for further sampling. I sampled 15 additional plots, 5 additional replicates done in each area. This means that 10…

Deer Herbivory Data Collection

On April 9th I was able to sample 19 plots at my study site. This is in addition to the 5 previous samplings for a total of 24 sample plots….

Data Collection and Reflections near Oyster River, BC

To date I have made two trips to my study area, which contains three different habitat types (ages of forest). I surveyed all three habitats for bird species on both…

Data Collection in Griffith Woods Park

Yesterday I spent approximately 8.5 hours collecting 50 replicates. Since my last post my study design has changed dramatically. Instead of investigating the effect distance from the river has on…

Data Collection Reflections

So far on my project, I have completed five counts for each of the three ponds. This has allowed me to gather a baseline idea of the species richness before…