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Today I visited my field study area given. Given that I hadn’t visited in a month there were several changes since the last time. The ground vegetation is fully covered and consists of grass, clover and dandelion. The clover was much heavier at the top of the grass mound located at the south side of the courtyard. Due to heavy volumes of rain and ground was very moist.
The attribute I plan to study if the honey locust trees at the south side of the courtyard. The six honey locust trees have leaves on most of the tree, however the top foot of each tree did not have leaves. This was a common pattern and uncommon for the tree variety. There are no buds visible on the top of the trees. The remainder of the tree looks healthy with flowers beginning from the trunk.
In looking at the trees I believe the lack of leaves on the top of the trees is the result of the excessive rain and cool temperatures we have experienced. I predict that once the weather warms up and the ground dries up the trees will continue to bloom. In this study the response variable is the six honey locust trees. A potential explanatory variable is the temperature and soil moisture, these variables would be continuous.
