User: | Open Learning Faculty Member:
The only difficulty that I had implementing my stratified random sampling technique for identifying shorebirds within each of my specific locations (3 locations along a gradient of human presence) was the fact that I didn’t have a way of measuring a large area to ensure that each quadrat/plot (my sampling unit) could be equal in area. I tried to identify birds within a relatively uniform circumference for my sampling plots/qaudrats. The data I collected was not surprising as it seemed to follow the expected trend of increasing shorebird diversity with a decreasing amount of human presence/urbanization. I plan to use the same sampling approach but I would like to collect more replicate data at various times of day to account for any differences in shorebird diversity across time rather than just space.
