Pilot Experiment Solo Survey in King City

The rep column is the
number plots that I examined throughout my experiment. I survey fifty 0.5mx0.5m
plots in a 50-meter path.

The date is when I collected
my pilot experiment data for the solo survey, which was on September 28th,
2020.

The researcher who
conducted this experiment was me, James Zabbal.

The location where I conducted
this experiment was in a path/forest area that is located behind my house in
King City, Ontario. It has a variety of different plant species there and is
located beside a pond.

The species richness
column is how many different plant species were located in each quadrant I had
examined. The most common species growing in the location were Goldenrods, New
England Asters, and White Heath Asters.

The total cover column
was a rough estimate (by percentage) of how much of each quadrant was covered
by plants.

I collected the data for
my experiment by picking a start point on the path and using a measure tape, I
measured 0.5mx0.5m quadrants for each meter I stepped forward. I took notes of
the different plant species I saw in each quadrant, and then roughly estimated
how much of the quadrant space the plants took up (plants vs open land/grass).