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Blog 8
Create a blog post discussing your table or graph. Did you have any difficulties organizing, aggregating or summarizing your data? Was the outcome as you expected? Did your data reveal…
Blog 7
What ecological processes might your hypothesis touch on? Plant-Pollinator Interactions: This hypothesis directly addresses the relationship between plants (aster species) and their pollinators (insects). It suggests that the availability of…
Blog 6
How many replicates did you sample? I sampled 15 replicates – collected data from 5 quadrats along a gradient once a day for three consecutive days. Have you had any…
Mohn Mill- Area Sampling Method
1 Using haphazard sampling, I could choose sampling areas that were heavily populated with more species to increase the species sampled, which influenced the data and introduced bias. I wasn’t…
Observations
Post 1: On Saturday, at 11:00 a.m., I went to Jinnah city Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The temperature was 6 degrees, which was really chilly and cloudy. I observed the…
Ongoing Field Observations
Date: [Oct10th, 2023] Location: Riverside Park, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Organism: Bird Diversity and Migration Patterns Field Journal Observations: I’ve selected “bird diversity and migration patterns” as the focal point…
Ongoing Observation of Area within Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park
The organism I have chosen to focus on is the Red Osier Dogwood, Cornus stolonifera. In my study area, I observed that the further in the upland gradient toward the…
Blog post 8: Tables and graphs
Did you have any difficulties organizing, aggregating or summarizing your data? I did not encounter difficulties organizing my data per se; however, summarizing it and choosing what information to include…
Blog 2: Academic Source
The source of literature I choose is The Birds of British Columbia Volume 4 by Robert Campbell et al. This source is a great starting point for my project…
Design Reflection; Systemic Sampling
One of the difficulties in implementing my sampling strategy was figuring out which one of the sampling methods worked for my experiment. At first, I tried using random sampling but…