Ecology Week3 Woodlot Dataset 4

Ateeb Khan The experient was conducted in order to observe the characteristics of a single species of trees and their respective saplings. This was achieved for 10 sugar maple trees by running a 25m transect tape through a woodlot forest and recording data such as diameter at breast height of the tree and nearest sapling, distance to nearest sapling and canopy coverage of the tree. This was done by myself and the aid of my peer Akhilesh by using our hands and other items as a reference for length, and comparing it to the transect measuring tape for a more accurate length. The 10 closest trees (of the same species) to the transect tape were used for the experiment