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I was really happy with how my field experiment was designed and carried out. I only needed to change minor things along the way. I decided to make the quadrat bigger and only stick to categorical response variables so I could use the ANOVA statistical framework. It did take me awhile to find the right tide pools because there is variation between the distances from the low-tide mark that the certain pools would be at. I have great appreciation for all ecologist out there because it is not easy developing a theory since the data need to be in replicates but those are not always easy to find. I now understand the time and effort that goes into ecological theory.
