Wk6 & 7: Designing own experiment

<p>We hypothesized that the abundance of insects varies related on the height of the plants. The taller the plants, the more insects will be present. The reason for this was because the plant height is related to the amount of rescoures it can provide to the insects (food, water, shelter). On two cloudy Tuesday afternoon, with temperature around 9 degrees celcius we were able to collect 40 sets of data from three different plant heights (unmowed, mowed and concrete) we saw that the results from our experiment confrimed with our hypothese. Unmowed grass clearly had more insects present, hiding under the leaves and the branches. While there were hardly any insects found on the concrete. Hence concludes that the height of the plants have a relationship with the abundance of insects present.</p

Ecology Lab 4 - Quadrate Data Set - Insect Abundance in Different Plant Surroundings

<p>Three different areas of vegetation was studied for their abundance of insects based on the height of surrounding plants. Tall Grass area of plants over 15 inches tall; Short Grass area of plants under 5 inches tall; and concrete parking lot area of no vegetation. 40 quadrates were randomly placed for each of the three different vegetation areas. For each quadrate placed average height of plants were recorded using transect, and total abundance of observed insects were recorded. Location of these three areas were located at the York University Keele Campus. South-East of the pond located on Pond Road. Experiment was completed on a cool dry day.</p