Your Colleague Designed A Common Garden Experiment

Your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if moisture level influences competition between a native alga and an exotic alga.

Your colleague designed a common garden experiment. Dry with native only dry with exotic only dry with both algae and wet with both algae. The previous section summarized the 10 steps for developing and implementing an on farm research project. Wet with native only wet with exotic only wet with both algae and dry with both algae.

In order to establish an experimental framework in which to investigate variability in phenotypic traits within and among salmon lice populations an experimental protocol was established for producing full sibling family groups to study in a common garden experiment i e mixing all families together in the same environment figure 1. Your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if moisture level influences competition between a native alga and an exotic alga. In steps 1 through 3 you wrote out your research question and objective developed a hypothesis and figured out what you will observe and measure in the field.

The design includes four plot types. Transplant experiment also known as a common garden experiment although this term is more plant specific is an experiment where one or more organisms are moved from one environment to another environment. The design includes four plot types.

The results are below. Show more your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if desiccation drying out influences competition between a native alga and an exotic alga. The design includes four plot types.

Wet with native only wet with exotic only wet with both algae and dry with both algae. In a usual common garden experiment two species of plants growing in their native environments would both be transplanted in a common environment.