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I had no difficulties organizing my data. However, I had difficulties in finding the best way to summarize and illustrate the data. It took a little playing around with the data to find the best outcome which summarizes and explains what the overall study was about. The outcome was what I expected, there is a significant difference between area with <50% canopy cover, compared to the other levels of canopy coverage. Each dot represents the sample means of each strata (canopy cover). each interval is a 95% confidence interval that the group mean is within the groups confident interval. The error bars represent the standard error of the means, in other words, how accurate the sample represents the population. My study focuses on the moss abundance on the ground, I wonder if this pattern would be the same if I looked at moss abundance on trees. If the pattern was the same, I wonder if the same elements play the same roles. On the other hand, if it was different, would it be due to the same mechanisms driving this pattern, or are other factors included.
