Preliminary Results

Hey everyone!  I haven’t finished collecting data yet but there are a few things I have noticed from the growth I have so far.  First of all I am only getting growth in the high water regime, unfortunately the low water regime cannot sustain the trees at such a fragile state.  One of the main things I have seen is that both populations are growing much better under conditions with ash cover as you can see in the pictures below.  The top photo is high water without ash and the bottom photo is high water with ash.

There has been a much better germination success rate for both populations with ash cover but beyond this I have noticed that under conditions of high water with ash cover the mainland population seems to have greater germination success than the island population.  Under conditions of high water without ash on the other hand the island population seems to be having greater germination success than the mainland population.  The preliminary data seems to be supporting my hypothesis but we will have to wait and see until I finish collecting and analyzing my data.