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Post 9: Field Research Reflections
There were challenges to this field project such as choosing a concise study topic. I changed my project ideas often, which caused some delays and confusion. It took me a…
Ongoing Field Observation
1) Identify the organism or biological attribute that you plan to study. I plan to study the different vegetation that grows in my field, and what order my cow calf…
Data Collection – Chickadee Behavior
So far my sampling seems to be going well. I have paced out 50m increments along the pathway I am sampling at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary using an app that…
Theoretical Perspectives on Red-winged blackbird aggression
My research focuses on aggression in Red-winged blackbirds in relationship to female and male densities. Aggression has been noted both females and males and has been associated with sexual selection…
Data Collection for Red-winged blackbirds
My design for my field research project was originally set up at as a transect with random points. I was having challenges with the stats collection of individuals present as…
Design Reflections – Red-winged black bird
Creating a field research experiment and implementing a sampling strategy has been rather challenging. The Red-winged blackbird is a migratory song bird that is suggested to appear in March to…
Mohn Mill Sampling
Mohn Mill community was selected for the virtual forest tutorial community sampling exercise to which area method was used in conjunction with systematic, random, and haphazard sampling techniques. There were…
Invasive species.
Site – Vancouver Island University park (highest Elevation 136m), and (lowest elevation – 93 m). For my field observation, I selected the highest elevation on Vancouver Island University’s field, which…
Sources of Scientific Information
a) The Source: Walsh, J. C., Pendray, J. E., Godwin, S. C., Artelle, K. A., Kindsvater, H. K., Field, R. D., … & Reynolds, J. D. (2020). Relationships between Pacific…
Design Reflection
1. Create a blog post to discuss the collection of the initial data in Module 3. Did you have any difficulties in implementing your sampling strategy? The data collection methods…