OLFM: Nancy Elliot
Springs seepage and beaver pool complex in Grindrod B.C.
On January 18th, 2024 I set out to investigate a beaver “bank burrow” (den) site on the left bank of the Shuswap River near my home in Grindrod B.C, to…
Design Reflections
The data was collected using the random sampling technique. A 1m × 1m quadrat was used to sample the data. A random number generator was used to generate the number…
Virtual Tutorial
We used three sampling techniques in the virtual forest tutorial. Of the three techniques, the random sampling technique under the distance method had the fastest sampling time. The percentage error…
Results of Sampling Strategies – Virtual Forest
The results of the virtual forest sampling tutorial are presented in Table 1. The tutorial was completed using distance based sampling for all three sampling techniques. The most accurate sampling…
Theoretical perspectives; what a keystone species is and why are Grizzly bears, beavers and killer whale considered to be some of them in British Columbia:
⇒ A species that plays a vital role in defining an entire ecosystem. Without its keystone species, the ecosystem would either no longer exist or would change significantly. This means…
Data Collection
1. Grizzly Bears: Data Collection: • GPS Tracking: o Track the whereabouts of grizzly bears with GPS collars to see if their range has changed. • Temperature and Climate Data:…
Blog Post #3
I plan to study Garry Oak trees and how elevation affects their height and distribution in Christmas Hill Sanctuary. At lower elevations, I observed that Garry Oak trees were less…
Blog Post #2
Blog Post #2 The article “Influence of elevation gradient and plant species composition on soil organic carbon in Mount Rungwe Forest Reserve, Tanzania” (https://doaj.org/article/75826ca24986463fb55a9b474a31ef1f), from Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, would…
Observations
Blog Post #1 Christmas Hill Sanctuary is situated in a residential area in Victoria, BC. Christmas Hill is 11 hectares in size and 109m above sea level at the summit….
Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
I selected the article Experience of Forest Ecological Classification in Assessment of Vegetation Dynamics by Natalya Ivanova, Valery Fomin, and Antonín Kusbach to review for Post 2. Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063384. I…