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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,…
Field Observations
Date: June 3, 2022 Observer: Ziyi Yu Duration: 11:00am to 3:30pm Weather: Sunday The diversity and the abundance of the species in Blue Mountain Hill were high on June. The…
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…
Figure – Stockley Open Park
For my research project I wanted to show the response of non-native plant density in relation to distance from a linear disturbance. I first created one line graph that showed…
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…
Data Collection
I went to the Blue Mountain Hill for the data collection on June 19 from 9:30am to 2:50pm in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a Sunday and the temperature was…
Blog Post 4: Sampling Strategies
Species Density Percentage (%) Error Systematic (Area) Random (Distance) Haphazard (Area) Eastern Hemlock 1.57 11.4 43.65 Sweet Birch 39.74 46.55 8.66 Yellow Birch 19.65 11.94 56.84 Chestnut Oak 57.14 4.23…
Sources of Scientific Information
The journal I have chosen for the post is from one of my courses titled “A Role for Natural Resource Social Science in Biodiversity Risk Assessment”. envs3991_m1t1_la1_role_social_science This is an…
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…