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Blog Post 8
For me, the most difficult aspect of this assignment was data management, which required meticulous attention. The project required extensive planning to maintain its integrity. Integrating the data posed its…
Results of Sampling Strategies – Virtual Forest
The results of the virtual forest sampling tutorial are presented in Table 1. The tutorial was completed using distance based sampling for all three sampling techniques. The most accurate sampling…
Theoretical perspectives; what a keystone species is and why are Grizzly bears, beavers and killer whale considered to be some of them in British Columbia:
⇒ A species that plays a vital role in defining an entire ecosystem. Without its keystone species, the ecosystem would either no longer exist or would change significantly. This means…
Data Collection
1. Grizzly Bears: Data Collection: • GPS Tracking: o Track the whereabouts of grizzly bears with GPS collars to see if their range has changed. • Temperature and Climate Data:…
Blog Post #3
I plan to study Garry Oak trees and how elevation affects their height and distribution in Christmas Hill Sanctuary. At lower elevations, I observed that Garry Oak trees were less…
Blog Post #2
Blog Post #2 The article “Influence of elevation gradient and plant species composition on soil organic carbon in Mount Rungwe Forest Reserve, Tanzania” (https://doaj.org/article/75826ca24986463fb55a9b474a31ef1f), from Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, would…
Observations
Blog Post #1 Christmas Hill Sanctuary is situated in a residential area in Victoria, BC. Christmas Hill is 11 hectares in size and 109m above sea level at the summit….
Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
I selected the article Experience of Forest Ecological Classification in Assessment of Vegetation Dynamics by Natalya Ivanova, Valery Fomin, and Antonín Kusbach to review for Post 2. Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063384. I…
Ongoing Field Observations
I have chosen to study The Impact of Backyard Gardening on Wildlife Sustainability: How Urban Gardens can affect the lives of local wildlife. Hypothesis: The more effort that backyard gardeners…
Sources of Scientific Information
I have chosen to use an article discussing ‘ How wildlife gardening brings a vibrant ecosystem into your backyard’. https://thursd.com/articles/wildlife-gardening-creates-habitat-in-backyard This article was written as a public blog posting, and,…