Field Experiment Data for Solo Survey

Meta-Data:

The rep column is the number plots
that I examined throughout my experiment. I survey one hundred 0.5mx0.5m
quadrants in total.

The date is when I collected my
pilot experiment data for the solo survey, which was on October 20th,
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 in each quadrant I had examined. The plants
in my data include Trifolium prantense, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae,
Rudbeckia, Solidago canadensis and Sinapis arvensis.

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

Near pond is if the data I
collected for my replicates was beside the lake or not. Y = yes = 0-5 meters
distance from the pond. N = no = 30+ meters from the pond.

I collected the data for my
experiment by picking a start point (threw a rock in the air and where it
landed is where I started) on the path and using a measure tape, I measured
0.5mx0.5m quadrants for each data point I collected. To include randomization
in my experiment, I used a random number generator. For every even number, I
took a meter step forward for my next data point, and for every odd number I
took a 2-meter step forward for my next data point. 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).