OLFM: Robyn Reudink
Data Collection Reid Marriott T00716013
On June 30th I went to Hunter Park in Langley to begin my final data collection. The weather was sunny and hot with a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and…
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,…
Post 9: Field Research Reflections
For a self study course and myself having little to no field research experience, this project was huge. I can see the ecology studies would require so many studies to…
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…
Sampling Strategies Isaac Hudson Foy
The first technique, sampling along a topographic gradient had the fastest sampling time, but only by an estimated 3 minutes compared to the second sampling method. Therefore, the two first…
Blog Post 4: Sampling Strategies Taylor Munro
Simple Random Using random or systemic sampling and the area based method, my random (x,y) quadrats were (90, 30), meaning I selected the quadrat (0, 30) as my starting point….
Theoretical Perspectives – Desierto de Los Leones National Park
My research focused on discovering if there is a correlation between elevation and the density of mountain roses (Eryngium proteiflorum). In my hypothesis, I ventured that it’s due to the…
Post 3: Ongoing Field Observations – Taylor Munro
Time/Date: 1230PM/Monday, June 13, 2022 Weather: 10C, overcast, raining on and off. Observations: Summer is certainly in full swing as several small shrubs and plants have sprouted up on the…
Post 8: Info gathered and let the graphs begin
In creating graphs and tables I saw visually represented what I already had found in my study. I surveyed 3 zones and 20 quadrants looking for a relationship between chokecherry…