This morning we woke up to a sunny, not rainy, morning. It was absolutely wonderful to walk around with Geovany and his friend, Ulises who is a plant expert. Ulises and Geovany worked together to help us identify some more of our unknown plants. We also were able to finish mapping sloth valley and the cabin areas. After walking to the Super Kike, we started our quadrats. By dinner time we had finished 8 out of 12 quadrats (which was more than the 6 we expected to complete). We are very excited to wrap up our plant project tomorrow.
Mary Boyum: May 2008 Archives
The map group had a good strong first day. The paths roads were mapped, as well as all of the survey points for the Bird Group. The bird points have been added to the online maps. The popup windows have attribute information for each bird point. This still needs to be properly formated.
The grid and property boundary have also been re-aligned with the base point. This re-alignment was in the region of 50m, and some of the color patches on the satellite photo now match topographic and vegetation features. The stable/barn may also be visible (all of the other buildings on the property are newly built).
The grid and property boundary have also been re-aligned with the base point. This re-alignment was in the region of 50m, and some of the color patches on the satellite photo now match topographic and vegetation features. The stable/barn may also be visible (all of the other buildings on the property are newly built).
Today we finally
established our revised study. We found
12 areas of reforestation in Leaves and Lizards. We labeled them and took pictures of them. We also started categorizing tree species
found all over the reserve, not just in our twelve points. We also decided on parameters of what we will
describe our twelve sections with. They
include grass percentage, proximity to water, distance from plants, patch type,
area, % slope, dominant plant, and disturbance.
We will also look at the role and importance of all species found.
The pictures are three standard examples of the type of description we will give for each species of plant we encounter.
Hola,
We are the plant group who decided to start practicing our Spanish for the Costa Rica field ecology class. We are the fantastic senior bio students at UD and our names are: Lorea, Mary, and Chris G for the money...We are really excited to go to Costa Rica to help Leaves and Lizards reforest their property. We will be looking at the various plant types and recording them.
We are the plant group who decided to start practicing our Spanish for the Costa Rica field ecology class. We are the fantastic senior bio students at UD and our names are: Lorea, Mary, and Chris G for the money...We are really excited to go to Costa Rica to help Leaves and Lizards reforest their property. We will be looking at the various plant types and recording them.
