OLFM: Nancy Elliot
Study site description
My study site is located outside the village of Cumberland on Vancouver Island, BC. The land sits on sand and gravel deposits and abuts a proposed industrial area known as…
Blog 8
Create a blog post discussing your table or graph. Did you have any difficulties organizing, aggregating or summarizing your data? Was the outcome as you expected? Did your data reveal…
Blog 7
What ecological processes might your hypothesis touch on? Plant-Pollinator Interactions: This hypothesis directly addresses the relationship between plants (aster species) and their pollinators (insects). It suggests that the availability of…
Blog 6
How many replicates did you sample? I sampled 15 replicates – collected data from 5 quadrats along a gradient once a day for three consecutive days. Have you had any…
Mohn Mill- Area Sampling Method
1 Using haphazard sampling, I could choose sampling areas that were heavily populated with more species to increase the species sampled, which influenced the data and introduced bias. I wasn’t…
Observations
Post 1: On Saturday, at 11:00 a.m., I went to Jinnah city Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The temperature was 6 degrees, which was really chilly and cloudy. I observed the…
Ongoing Field Observations
Date: [Oct10th, 2023] Location: Riverside Park, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Organism: Bird Diversity and Migration Patterns Field Journal Observations: I’ve selected “bird diversity and migration patterns” as the focal point…
Ongoing Observation of Area within Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park
The organism I have chosen to focus on is the Red Osier Dogwood, Cornus stolonifera. In my study area, I observed that the further in the upland gradient toward the…
Blog post 8: Tables and graphs
Did you have any difficulties organizing, aggregating or summarizing your data? I did not encounter difficulties organizing my data per se; however, summarizing it and choosing what information to include…
Post 7: Theoretical Perspectives
The ecological processes that are important for my research include the diet of killdeer, habitat factors important for shore birds, wetland habitat, grassland habitat, and human interference on avian populations….