Dataset 2: Techniques and data for field training with plants (traits, transects and quadrats)

In our group we had five members: Farkhanda, Reema, Olivia, Ratiba and Huda. The data was collected in the york univesrity field area near by the buses stand at the woodlands and grassland. This was done on the Wednesday 23rd, 2015 at 4:00 pm. The temperature was hot that day and there was construction noise, birds noise, busses noise, small insect noise, sunny , cloudy but no air. Also there were many trees in the woodlots and lots of grass and different kind of plants in grass land. Most of the grassland was dead due to change of weather. Some of the plants were dead (for e.g. goldren rod) , and some were colourfull plants (for e.g purple astar). The goal was to collect the plant species, height, distance, number of leaves and number of flowers and crowded patch (0=open, 1=some plants nearby, 2=quiet a few plants, 3=very crowded bunch of plantswithin 50 cm). The equipments are: two measuring transect tape, quadrat, pen, and paper. The experiment was carried out by us choosing which species of plants available to take measurement for. So we decided to choose the golden rod plants because they were lots of them. We split into two groups and one group meausred the height and distance between the plants and other group counted the number of leaves, flowers, and crowd patch of the plants (0=open, 1=some plants nearby, 2=quiet a few plants, 3=very crowded bunch of plantswithin 50 cm). At the end of the measurement and counting we shared our data in the group members.