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Blog post 5: design reflections
Did you have any difficulties in implementing your sampling strategy? What were these difficulties? Yes. What I struggled the most with was designing a sampling strategy that would be appropriate…
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a) The paper I have chosen as a source of ecological information is titled: Do Nitrogen and Phosphorus Additions Affect Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Tropical Mosses? Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/7/1443 b) This…
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Date Visited September 4, 2023, at 13:35 PM – Weather: Sunny – Season: End of Summer – Humidity: 60% – Temperature: 30°C – Wind: 12 km/h NE Overview Yichang City,…
Blog Post 5: Design Reflections
1. Did you have any difficulties in implementing your sampling strategy? Yes, I did have trouble implementing my sampling strategy. 2. If yes, what were these difficulties? Was the data…
Blog Post 5: Design Reflections
Did you have any difficulties in implementing your sampling strategy? If yes, what were these difficulties? Choosing what type of sampling strategy I would use was a bit difficult, as…
Blog Post 4: Sampling Strategies
Blog Post 4: Sampling Strategies In the virtual tutorial, I used the area-based method on the Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area for this exercise with 20 plots were sampled for systemic…
Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
The article I selected as my source of ecological information is titled: Fungal communities decline with urbanization – more in air than in soil. The link of the paper: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/3b46162c-2603-495f-bc3a-40f8a4469f5f/content …
Area method sampling
Systematic sampling technique had the fastest estimated sampling time. Calculated time = 12 hrs. 37 minutes. % error of density for the different sampling strategies: Systematic : Eastern Hemlock: 7.2%…
Blog post 3
I plan to study the plants (trees, shrubs, grass and flowers). I examined 3 different areas of the land and noticed the following: In Area 1, there are mainly grasses,…