OLFM: Nancy Elliot
Blog post 3
I plan to study the plants (trees, shrubs, grass and flowers). I examined 3 different areas of the land and noticed the following: In Area 1, there are mainly grasses,…
Blog 5
Did you have any difficulties in implementing your sampling strategy? If yes, what were these difficulties? I initially didn’t plan on recording data about pollinators on my selected plant species…
Blog Post 3:Explorations at Wesburn Park
Identify the organism or biological attribute that you plan to study. I returned to Wesburn Park in Burnaby for my field observations and discovered new little creatures that had not…
Blog post 3: ongoing observations
When I went back to my chosen site for the field research, I noticed several lawn tractors (i.e., mowing machinery) clearing out large parts of the grasslands where I made…
Blog post 4, sampling strategies
For this exercise I chose to use the area-based method. Which technique had the fastest estimated sampling time? The systematic sampling method had the fastest estimated time (12 hours, 37…
Blog 4
I used the area-based method for the following exercise. Which technique had the fastest estimated sampling time? The technique that had the fastest estimated sampling time…
Blog Post 3
Study organism: flat-top white aster (Doellingeria umbellata) and the large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla). Use your field journal to document observations of your organism or biological attribute along an environmental…
Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
a) say what the source is (and/or link to it) The source of ecological information I chose is an article that is titled: ‘The leaf-area shrinkage effect can bias…
Final report Reflection
The findings of the study confirm the anticipated influence of elevation on species abundance, likely driven by the shifts in climatic conditions along with type of soil associated with varying…