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I decided to use tables to represent my data. Initially, I did find it a bit difficult to organize the data that I collected and calculated especially since I collected data for the distance of the closest black spruce tree to the centre point in each quadrant and the DBH. I decided to make a table that shows the distances in each of the quadrants and then another table to show the DBH measurements. I then made a table to summarize all of the means such as the mean frequency, mean distance, mean area, mean density, and mean basal area. I had tables to summarize the calculations for the ANOVA analysis. The last table I had is to summarize the relative values such as relative importance value. The data expected as it supported my hypothesis since the dominance (relative importance) of black spruce species increased with elevation.
