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Because of time and weather constraints, I had to work with very little data. However, with what I was trying to accomplish, the collection of data was fairly straight forward and deciding on a visual representation took me a little longer. I was initially going to just keep a table with my figures because my variables are mostly categorical, but I was able to create two of the 3 variables that were most important. The data does not show a pattern at all so it did generate more questions and these will be explored in my discussion. I was disappointed that there was no significant pattern, but this might be explained due to flood disturbances over my ecotone gradient of the site.
Creating the graphs was challenging because I also had to learn how to use excel and trying to figure out how to create a table that can be converted into a graph the way I wanted. In the end it worked out pretty good.
