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I have decided to revise my original Observations Blog Post as my final project has changed. After much thought of the different ecological areas in Kamloops, I decided to observe three distinct areas on the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) campus. Each of these areas are slightly different with the first one being a small wooded area, the second being an open grassland with a few ornamental trees lining the area and the last being a garden with high densities of various flowers, trees, shrubs and wildlife. I visited each site on March 21, 2018 at 10:30am in which the weather was slightly overcast with a breeze. I spent thirty minutes at each site observing their various attributes. Each site visited on the TRU campus had different organisms that gravitated to that specific site. This had me wondering why are the specific organisms, especially birds, attracted to particular sites? I also noticed that the weather was slightly different at each site. It’s important to understand that the weather changes were rather minimal, however, one site was more windy than the other two or one site would receive more sunshine than the other two sites. This had me wondering if the minor weather changes played a role in determining which species preferred which site? Lastly, even though all of the sites were on the TRU campus I noticed how they significantly differed in their landscape. This had me wondering how does this occur? Each site I looked at were all within a 5 minute walk of each other so how does the landscape vary to such a degree within a confined space. Furthermore, due to each site having its own distinct features does that determine which organisms are able to thrive better in one area compared to another?
Below are visual representations of each sited observed within the TRU campus:
note it is note the weather per se that is different (although weather does change at different locations and even at the same location, as you know) – but I think you are referring to the signs of weather or the impacts? eg one site is probably more exposed so therefore more windy
good use of campus space.
Thanks for your feedback. That’s exactly what I was attempting to say. Depending on where the site is located on the TRU campus will further alter the impacts that weather has on it.