Ecology week 4: field sample with animals

The experiment was conducted at York university on stong pond, and saywell woodlot from 2:40-5:20 pm. In the experiment we used quadrats to measure the abundance of species in a certain area in both grassland and woodland. The quadrat used for this experiment was 1m x 1m and it was randomly laid out in 10 different areas in grassland and 10 different areas in woodland for a total of 20 number of quadrat samples. After the quadrat was laid out on the ground, the total number of different species was observed and estimated. Each of the quadrat was observe for about 2 minutes, and the amount of total number of species observed in that time interval was recorded, if there were no species observed in that time period zero was put as the estimate. In addition, we also observed different taxonomic units per sample (rtus) from class insect, class gastropoda, and class oligochatea. The different rtus from each sample was observed based on appearance and recorded in each column of the class.