yorku.woodlot.Sept20-2016.csv

The experiment was carried out on September 20, 2016 from approximately 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm. The temperature was 25 degrees Celsius, with the weather forecast being mostly sunny with no rainfall. The experiment was conducted within Boyer’s Woodlot located at York University near the Chimneystack road (Latitude 43.78, Longitude -79.50). It was predicted that there would be a larger distance between adult trees that have a larger diameter at breast height (dbh). It was hypothesized that as the distance between trees increased, the dbh would also increase because the larger adult trees (trees with large dbh’s) absorbed most of the sunlight and nutrients from their surroundings. In addition, these larger trees occupied a large amount of space which reduces the ability of other large trees to grow nearby.  To conduct the experiment, researcher 1 stood at the edge of the woodlot and placed the transect measuring tape at the edge of the area northwest of the lumbers building onto the ground. Then, researcher 2 held onto the other side of the transect measuring tape as they walked a total of 30 metres into the forest. The distance between each of the trees was measured using the transect measuring tape and the trees were approximately 0.50 m away from the transect measuring tape. A total of 10 pairs of trees was surveyed and the condition of each tree was noted (0=dead, 1=living, and 2= huge green canopy). The diameter at breast height was also measured using a measuring tape (at a breast height of 4 feet and 9 inches). All data collected was recorded in chart form during the experiment.