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For my project I selected Uplands Park as my research site, specifically the beach. Uplands Park is a 76-acre property located in a suburban neighbourhood in Victoria BC. The park is full of woodland trails and undeveloped natural reserve land. Terrain is relatively flat throughout the park and drops off a little closer to the beach. The ground is mainly soil, with a transition to a rockier terrain closer to the beach. Vegetation varies throughout the park. Taller trees are localized in the interior whereas bushes and grasses line the outskirts and roads that pass through the park. The rocky beach on the eastern side is home to many different types of seaweed and sea life. Barnacles are dispersed along the rocks close to the water. There are many tide pools along the beach with small communities living in them.
August 17 2017.
11:00AM, 19ᵒC, mainly sunny, wind 4km/h, humidity 64%
Questions:
- Could barnacle characteristics such as size and density per unit area squared be correlated with different water exposure levels?
- Tide pools situated at different elevations, thus flooding frequency, seemed to contain quite different compositions of plants and animals. Could there be a correlation between species present in a tide pool community and the frequency in which the tide pool is flooded?
- Could the characteristics of the seaweed in the tide pools be influenced by frequency of flooding?
interesting questions.
I think that there will be literature that will support any of the three –
question re 3 – what do you mean by ‘characteristics’ exactly?
now you can think through possible experiments that will have measurable variables!