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Create a final blog post that reflects on your field research. You both designed a field experiment and then carried it out. Did you have any issues with the implementation or have to make any changes to your design? Has engaging in the practice of ecology altered your appreciation for how ecological theory is developed?
My appreciation for the detail and depth in ecology has been wildly expanded. I performed the simplest of experiments and even then, the amount of hours, work, thought and literature review accompanying it surprised me. I have definitely found a new appreciation for ecologists. My implementation of design was simple from the beginning, but as I was sampling I kept thinking of more and more factors that should have been considered and further experimentation that would need to be performed to have my research make any sense or be of accuracy.
