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Collecting the data for my study has so far gone pretty smoothly. It has been a little challenging to lay the sampling line as the vegetation is fairly dense and quite a bit of scrambling has been required. I have sampled 6x 15m lengths at each site, and on each sampling line I have taken 5 measurements of fern frond size. As I began sampling next to the creek site, I realised that the fern growth became more abundant as the distance from the path increased, so I made sure that I always recorded the site closest to the road as sample 1 and the one farthest from the road as site 5. From my initial observations, it appears that the fern size variability seems greater at the creek site compared to the interior site, however, this is yet to be determined if it is a statistical difference.
