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Figure 1. Species richness as a daily value per observation site. This value is defined as a number of distinct species recorded on each visit. McArthur island park A is a site on the western exit from the park, and B is on the eastern. Riverside park A is located on southern entrance and B is located at the northwest shore. McDonald Park contained a single observation site, therefore, no data representing B site is present.
Before using any statistical analyses, it was important to see whether collected data had variation, in order to be a viable representative. I chose the scatterplot to show the distribution of means representing number of individual species observed at one visit. The pattern that can be seen on this graph is that the sites located in the same park have similar values for species richness. But the values between parks differ. Because these parks are located in three different urban environments, effects of urbanization were further compared with distribution patterns. One paper that I read stated that bees usually stick to one site even if a better one present within short range. This means that sites A and B for both parks should be assessed as independent even though the data seems very similar.
Because this graph was not supposed to have an actual x value, excel was not able to create it. MiniTab16 was used instead as it allows to set x value while changing y value.
