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).