Question

Ecology lab question for college biology class...

Answer 1

It's night time here and the last night to submit work. I didn't look at this lab until a minute ago and it says to go outside with a quadrat and measure 30 separate meters of plant community to sample diversity

Answer 2

It's like 30 degrees out, so I'm definitely not doing that, haha. I need some help with the instructions so I can BS some data and then do the statistics test.

Answer 3

It says, "Determine the # of unique species (alpha-diversity) in the second quadrat. Identify any species present in the second sample, not found in the first sample. In table 1, cumulative diversity. For example, if you found four species in transect 1 and three species in transect 2 (but two of the species in transect 2 were different than transect 1), the cumulative diversity for sample 2 would be 4 + 2 = 6

Answer 4

So if I say there are 6 plants in transect 1, do I then put a higher number in transect 2??

Answer 5

Or would it stay 6 for alpha diversity throughout, and then the cumulative diversity is where the sum goes?