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1.  Dogs at Princes Park

2. Sunday 25th of October, 4pm -4:30pm

3. I used the wandering search method in order to collect the data. I walked once around the 1km track, recording the breeds of dogs I observed. This took around 20- 30 minutes. Effort was measured by the time and distance covered in the wandering search.

4. The number of dog breeds sighted decreased throughout the wandering search. It was quite hard to keep track of the dog breeds already recorded, and at times hard to identify the breed as the field was large and the track only went around the outside, so the dogs were often moving fast and far away.

5. If observations were repeated, I would take more time to identify each dog breed carefully.

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what beer are people drinking at the pub?

studied at the espy

sat at the bar and watched what people ordered

memory got hazy about an hour in, lost notes and wallet

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1. What broad taxonomic group did you decide to sample?
Plants

2. When and where did you complete the study?
The nature park near my house

3. How did you measure effort?
Amount of time spent looking

4. What did you find?
Eucalypts, wildflowers, xanthorrhoea, banksia, grasses

5. If you were going to do this again, what would you change?
Maybe make a specimen book

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1. What broad taxonomic group did you decide to sample?
Birds

2. When and where did you complete the study?
Monday 26, Melbourne

3. How did you measure effort?
The amount of time spent looking.

4. What did you find?
Magpie, Crow, Tawny frogmouth, cockatoos, Rainbow lorikeet & wrens

5. If you were going to do this again, what would you change?
The area I looked for birds, I would increase it. Also replicate it to increase accuracy.

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Dog abundance and breeds in neighbourhood 

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Dog abundance and breeds in neighbourhood 

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The taxonomic group was family Canidae (Dog family)
The study was completed over the time period of 16/10/2020 to 26/10/2020 in suburb of Seaholme, Victoria.
Effort was measured by completing 45 minute walks to obtain more data. In addition the same path was taken each day to ensure area was not confounding results.
It was discovered that the most popular dog breeds were poodles followed by labradors. Through conducting the study it was found that the abundance of dogs decreased with weather. Whereby the colder, windy and rainy days less dogs were recorded than warmer days.
To improve the study conducting the experiment over a larger distance (longer walk) would enable more data to be collected and more precise and accurate data to be collected. Furthermore performing the walks and observations at different times of the day would also determine if time of day influences results.

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1. Meadow flowers.
2. Friday afternoon at Plenty Gorge park.
3. By the number of flowering species found within the quadrats. Quadrat size started at 10cmx10cm and the side lengths were doubled until it reached 80cmx80cm.
4. A new flower species was found every time the sides were doubled except for the last size increase (40cmx40cm to 80cmx80cm). This supports the logarithmic relationship that is predicted with this type of test.
5. Increase the quadrat size at smaller increments to get a more accurate relationship.

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1. Birds
2. on the weekend in the local park
3. the number of species found
4. at least 7 different species
5. I would use an app that allowed me to identify the bird species from calls or colour

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Identifying common grasses and weeds on the front lawn.

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Identifying the number of bird species by bird calls

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Identifying the number of bird species by bird calls

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1. Birds were sampled
2. Completed the study on an evening in my backyard
3. By setting an amount of time to listen to bird calls within
4. about 15 species within 30 mins
5. I would use a program or recording to make sure that I wasn't counting the same call twice by accident

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Stream diatom assemblages

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Instructions on how to contribute to this padlet:

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Instructions on how to contribute to this padlet:

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Here I will provide brief instructions on how to add a post to this padlet.

To get started, click the pink plus icon to the bottom right of screen. Give your study a neat title and upload a pic if you've got one, so that it will stick out from the crowd!

As you can see, I've included an example of how you might post your study (this example was based on my MSc research at unimelb). We've set it up so that you will present your study in response to the following five questions (one comment response for each question):

1. What broad taxonomic group did you decide to sample?

2. When and where did you complete the study?

3. How did you measure effort?

4. What did you find?

5. If you were going to do this again, what would you change?

To make comments, there's a text box icon on the bottom right of the post. Please stick to the ordering of the questions as it will make it easier for your peers to compare yours and other studies :)

Please don't spend too much time entering a response to each question, as you still have other things to do in the prac! One to two minutes writing a response for each question is fine.

Happy padleting!