Determining Plant abundance in Woodlot and Grasslands by impact of Sunlight and Soil Moisture

Data collection of lab occured in two days, October 13, 2015 and October 20, 2015 during the time peroid of 2:30 to 5:10 PM in the York University Danby Woodlot and Grasslands with the assistance of group members Khaula, Kathy, and Houra. The experiment was to measure the impact of sunlight and soil moisture on plant abundance in both the York University Danby Woodlot and Grasslands. During the data collection dates, temperature changed each day, from cold and windy to rainy weather, along with leaves covering the smaller plants, which would impact the plant abundance. To collect the data, we chose random numbers, which was used for the location of the quadrat in order to get random sampling for the replicates. The information that was collected was the plant abundance, which was counted in the quadrats perimeter; sunlight, measuring (scale of 0-3) amount of light covering the plants in the quadrat; and soil moisture, measuring (scale 0-2) amount of moisture found in the soil that plants were growing in, done by using popsicle sticks and paper towel. My partner Kathy and I took 40 random replicates in the Danby Woodlot on the first day of data collection and 40 more replicates on the second data collection day while our other two group members Khaula and Houra repeated the same process in the Grassland area.