Lab 2, Week 3: Techniques and Data - Field Training with Plants

We collected data on the characteristics of living thistle bushes in a grassland along a randomly placed transect, that started at the edge of the grassland and moved toward the centre, located at York University's Keele Campus, The characteristics measured include: distance (the distance the thistle plant was from the start of the transect, in meters), height (how tall the living thistle plant was, measured from the ground to the tip of the plant, in meters), number of leaves (number of living leaves on the thistle plant), number of flowers (number of living thisle blossoms located on the thisle plant), and level of crowdedness (the degree to which the thistle plant was surrounded by other living plants (including grass). Level 0 = open, 1 = some plants nearby, 2 = quite a few plant nearby, and 3 = very crowded bunch of plants within 50 cm).