OLFM: Nancy Elliot
Post 1: Observations – Carolyn Francis – Colony Farms
I have chosen to observe one of my favourite regional parks to visit. Colony Farms Regional Park covers 260 hectares, primarily consisting of grassland, wetlands, and rivers. It is a…
Data Collection at Grenadier Pond
According to my submitted experimental design, I sampled 40 replicates (40 1 square metre quadrats) at the northern and southern ends of Grenadier Pond. Following my stratified random sampling strategy,…
Design Reflections: Data Collection at Grenadier Pond
I did not have any significant difficulties implementing my sampling strategy. I measured out 5 transects (5 m each in length) at 5 different locations around my site of interest…
Sampling Strategies: Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area
In the virtual forests tutorial, I virtually sampled the Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area using area-based methods in three approaches: systematic, random, and haphazard sampling. The approach with the fastest estimated sampling…
Blog Post 7: Theoretical Perspectives
My hypothesis–tide levels have an influence on the number of American herring gulls at White Rock beach–primarily touches on the process of predation in relation to trophic levels in intertidal…
Blog post #2
I decided to evaluate and classify the article “Wet and Wonderful: The World’s Largest Wetlands Are Conservation Priorities” from the Thompson River University online library. This article is a non-peer…
Observations
Date visited: October 18th, 2022 Time: 1400hrs Location coordinates: 53. 4980532, -113.3972375 Weather: 19 degrees Celsius, sunny with thin sparce clouds with a light 4km/h northeast wind. Observation:For my field…
Blog Post 2: Academic, Peer-reviewed Research Article
https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01794.x The above article, “Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms” is an example of an academic, peer-reviewed research article retrieved from the…
Blog Post 1: Comox Valley Backyard
Time visited: Afternoon of January 2, winter, cold and damp weather conditions Latitude: 49.70968° N Longitude: 124.93232 W Due to recently moving, I have had to change my location. I…
Blog Post 6: Data Collection
Over the last couple weeks, I have been continuing my field data collection activities by visiting my observation site twice daily on days when the high and low tides occur…