Field training with plants ( quadrat, transect, trait)

The purpose for this experiment was to count the plant populations and communities at a certain location using sampling techniques.50 individual plants of different species were surveyed for this emperiment. The first dataset included transect which was placed randomly on the grassland and walked along with it. The Golden rod flower species was selected to count at every step the flower was available. Flowers that were only one meter away from the transect were counted and others were excluded from the data. Distance from the transect to the flowers and their heights were measured by using another transect in meters. The number of leaves and the flowers were counted manually.The place where the flowers were counted was mostly crowded thats why it was ranked as 3 (very crowded bunch of plants within 50cm) and 2 ( quite a few plants). This transect experiment was done on the grassland behind the Osgood Law School and the temperature was around 25 degrees. Only two lab partners were doing the transect counting and others were involved in the quadrat measurement.