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Sampling Strategies
The community I sampled for this exercise was the Snyder- Middleswarth Natural Area. I chose to use area sampling rather than distance sampling since it is more relevant to my…
Post 3: Ongoing Field Observations
Blog Post 3: Ongoing Field Observations Study Plan I plan to study the effect of dry season watering on the growth of saprophytic fungi in the winter. My research…
Blog Post 9: Field Research Reflections
What a journey! I’ve finally come to the end of my field research experiment and it was certainly a valuable experience. I really enjoyed working through the entire process of…
Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information (Field Guides)
Dickinson M, editor. 1999. Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition. Washington (DC): National Geographic Society. I was somewhat surprised to find this book is non-academic material,…
Post 1: Observations Bowen Park Forest
My sample site is the “wild” parts of Bowen Park in Nanaimo, BC. It’s a forest located on a 36 hectare parcel of land along the Millstone River. Much…
BP #7: Theoretical Perspectives
My research project is based around investigating whether there is a relationship between the height of a snowberry bush and its berry load. I am interested in whether the taller…
BP #6: Data Collection
I completed my data collection across 3 sampling trips in late October and November (not counting the initial data collection). I was careful to complete my data collection before the…
Post 4: Sampling strategies
Systematic, Random and Haphazard sampling techniques were used in the area-based method in the virtual forest tutorial. The systematic approach was most effective in terms of timing. The Random was…
Ongoing field observation
I visited my backyard for a second observation on October 5th, and the temperature was 14c; the third time was on October 13th, and the temperature was 10c. I focused…
Blog Post #6: Data Collection
Blog Post 6: Data Collection Data collection: My approach to data collection has been systematic as random selection does not apply well to the setting of my project and haphazard…