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Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
The book I have found is “Environmental Ecology: The Ecological Effects of Pollution, Disturbance and Other Stresses” by Bill Freedman. This source would be considered academic, peer-reviewed review material. It…
Blog Post 4: Sampling Strategies
For writing this post I used three sampling techniques – systematic, random and subjective (haphazard). Systematic technique took 12 hours and 6 minutes, random – 12 hours and 42 minutes…
Issues with My design
I chose to use systematic sampling. My response variable is number of leaves and my explanatory variable is weather and atmospheric conditions. I found my method of data collection to…
Blog Post #4: Sampling Strategies
In this simulation, I chose to use a distance-based sampling strategy as it best represents my own field project. This was done in the Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area simulation. The fastest…
Blog Post #3: Ongoing Field Observations
Identify the organism or biological attribute that you plan to study. After visiting the Bow River site multiple times, I have begun to identify a plethora of wildlife active near…
Theoretical Perspectives
The Golden View Trail near living area is a trail sandwiched man-made gardens. Humans hand-picked shrubbery, trees and plants to grow and beautify the area. That being said, I’ve observed…
Post 8: Tables and Graphs – Barnacle Density McNeill Bay
To summarize my results I have decided to show my graph describing the relationship between barnacle density at each of my different treatment sites: +Sea Wall; +Drainage (n=20), -Sea Wall;…
blog post 9
=My understanding of ecological processes was enhanced by the field study, and my knowledge of journals increased throughout the course of the final research project. Future endeavours will benefit greatly…
blog post 8
The primary problem I had with arranging my data was that it was a laborious effort. I found that my knowledge of excel was pretty rusty, therefore I had to…
blog post 7
My research field project is related to vegetation and invertebrates or i can say in other words I studied in this field project geography of the Meziadin river and the…