Category: Post 5: Design Reflections
Design Reflections from Module 3 Data Collection
The sampling strategy used in module 3 posed some issues with regards to the data collection. The movement of the birds around the water reduced areas was very random, which…
Post 5: Design Reflections
There were few difficulties in implementing quadrat haphazard sampling because the grass species in the field were very tall. It was also difficult to sample in the forest because the…
Design Reflections for Effect of Ambient Temperature on Bird Activity
A few reflections brought insight into what might have been changed in the replication of this study. Initial point count observations were made over the course of an hour, which…
Initial Data Collection
The initial data collection was a bit more complicated than I expected. While the sample strategy was straight forward, the field work required was more than expected. The tributaries I…
Post 5: Design Reflections – Taylor Munro
Sample Date: June 24, 2022 Time: 6:00 PM. Site: Centennial Park, Thunder Bay Ontario Weather: Very sunny, 22°C. The sampling methodology I decided to use was a modified plot/quadrant method,…
Design Reflections Isaac Hudson Foy
For my data collection, I went to the park in the late afternoon. I spent 5 minutes at each site (highly disturbed by humans, moderately, and low disturbance) recording all…
Design Reflection Reid Marriott T0071601
Hello, A difficulty that I had with my sampling strategy was having to redo the number generation for placing my quadrat in the maintained area if the numbers landed on…
Design Reflections of Cakile edentula along Air Force beach, Courtenay BC
I am studying the impact of trampling on the growth pattern of American sea rocket, Cakile edentula, at Airforce Beach in the Comox Valley. I chose…
Design Reflections
May 29, 2022. Sunday, 16 °C. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I discovered two area with different altitudes by 1m × 1m quadrats, and I separated the quadrats to ten 10cm…
Desierto de Los Leones Study Design Reflections
I went back to the Desierto de Los Leones National Park in Mexico City to continue my sampling. I’m focusing on a flower commonly known as the mountain rose (Eryngium…