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Insights from St. Vital Park

Insights from St. Vital Park I visited St. Vital Park between 11:25 am and 12:20 pm on 9th April 2022. This park is the third largest park of Winnipeg city…

Tables and Graphs representing Avian species richness

I made two tables and two graphs to summarize my findings from the completed point counts over two different days. One table simply shows the presence or absence of a…

Sources of Scientific Information

a) The source of scientific information I chose for this blog post was “Genomic variation from an extinct species is retained in the extant radiation following speciation reversal” by David…

Ecological Information Source

I found the source of ecological information through the podcast Big Biology (Episode 75). It is an article first posted in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…

Desierto de Los Leones

I visited Desierto de Los Leones National Park on Wednesday, March 23th, from 11:20 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. The park is located southwest of Mexico City and has an area…

The Affect of Temperature on Bird Activity

Based on the availability of a healthy riparian zone in a nearby location with an abundance of bird species, I decided to observe the number of these birds from a…

Blog Post #2: Ecological Information Source

a) The online ecological source that I have chosen for this post is a journal article titled “Movements, Home-Range Size and Habitat Selection of Mallards during Autumn Migration” from Bengtsson,…

Virtual Forest Tutorial

The technique with the fastest sampling time was Random at 4 hours, 43 minutes, followed by 12 hours, 6 minutes for systematic along a topographical gradient, and finally 13 hours,…

An ecological study of chronic kidney disease in five Mesoamerican countries : associations with crop and heat

A: “An ecological study of chronic kidney disease in five Mesoamerican countries: associations with crop and heat”, from the Library at Thompson Rivers University Hansson, Erik. Mansourian, Ali. Farnaghi, Mahdi….

Data Collection and Reflections near Oyster River, BC

To date I have made two trips to my study area, which contains three different habitat types (ages of forest). I surveyed all three habitats for bird species on both…