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The graph that I created from my collected data was easy to organize, aggregate and summarize. I had the data all laid out for each tidal zone (high, mid and low) therefore, I was able to group together zones and average data which would be more representative for a specific zone. The outcome was similar to what other papers have found but I still predicted that low-tide pools would have greater richness and diversity but this was not the case for all species. The mid-tide zone had more barnacles and also more snails which was not expected but this gave me the idea to look at other papers and they noticed this trend too. The mid-tide zone provides a good environment very similar to the low-tide zone. Making my graph has prompted me to look more into what environmental conditions the thatched barnacles prefer to live in.
