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Barnacles

Blog Post #3 : Ongoing field Observations Date: Friday, March 11th, 2022. Time of Visit: 1730-1845.   Location:  Sheltered lagoon region, to the west side of Goose Spit Regional Park. 49.6653°…

Virtual Forest Tutorial

During the virtual forest sampling tutorial, I used the distance-based sampling method for all three trials. Of the three sampling methods the systemic method had the fastest estimated time to…

Peer Reviewed Academic Research

Blog Post 2 : Sources of Scientific Information Source:  Capitani, L., Roos, N., Longo, G. O., Angelini, R., & Schenone, L. (2021).     Resource‐to‐consumer ratio determines the functional response…

Blog Post 1: Observations of Bow Park

On February 23rd at 3:45 pm PST, I made my initial field observations Bow Park in Victoria B.C. The Park itself is roughly 1000m2 and is comprised of a large…

Site Selection and observations

Blog Post 1: Site selection and observations Date: Saturday, March 5th, 2022. Time of Visit: 1430-1600.   Location:  Sheltered lagoon region, to the west side of Goose Spit Regional Park. 49.6653°…

Data Collection Reflections

So far on my project, I have completed five counts for each of the three ponds. This has allowed me to gather a baseline idea of the species richness before…

Blog #4 Virtual Forest Sampling

For the virtual forest sampling tutorial I used the area method. Systematic sampling was the fast approach (12 hours, 36 mins) followed by Haphazard sampling (13 hours, 5 mins) then…

Research design beginnings

In blog post three I thought I would try to see if there was a correlation between salmon carcasses and species richness, however this will prove difficult to get a…

Sampling Strategies

After running the three types of tests the results said that subjective sampling would take the longest amount of time at 12 hours and 44 minutes, although this is only…

Field Observations at Polson Park

Polson Park was chosen as an area of study for its convenient access for regular field visits, as well as its ecological diversity. This 13.5 hectare public park contains areas…