Soil Quality And Density Effects On The Number Of Stems In Goldenrods

The location in which the study was conducted was the grasslands in Stong Pond at York University. The data was collected over a span of two days, a week apart each collection. The first 25 replicates were obtained on October 19, 2015. The temperature was around 16 degrees Celsius, with dark skies full of grey rain clouds. The second day the second set of replicates were collected October 26, 2015. Where the temperature was around 11 degrees Celsius with a partially cloudy sky. The data was collected by placing quadrants 3 steps apart one another starting from the waters edge of Stong pond all the way to the roadside of the grassland. Within the quadrant, the number of goldenrods will be noted as well as the total number of branches, collectively. Soil quality is going to be determined through soil temperature as goldenrods have an ideal soil temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. This will be sampled using a thermometer and categorized as, low (7-9 degrees Celsius), ideal (10 degrees Celsius) and high (11-13 degrees Celsius).