Research Update 2/21/16
Hey guys, this week I started playing around with the dozens of collected aerial images I have. I also am meeting with my advisor within the next few days to touch base and maybe gather some additional resources.
In addition, I have also started to analyze the demography plot data and have found some very interesting results! As it turns out my original hypothesis that the SRI Torrey pine population was growing significantly due to the removal of the ungulates in 2013. However, there appears to be a decrease in the population as can be seen in the chart below
|
Height cm |
July 2014 |
Jan2016 |
Change |
|
Class 1 <30 |
84 |
44 |
-40 |
|
Class 2 30-160 |
122 |
129 |
7 |
|
Class 3 161-300 |
29 |
20 |
-9 |
|
Class 4 301-600 |
23 |
22 |
1 |
|
Class 5 600+ |
71 |
63 |
-8 |
|
329 |
278 |
-51 |
As the chart show, most of the change is from Class 1 trees, saplings/seedlings. These are very interesting results, however depict a very limited temporal scale, I am very excited to see future research and more long term results in the future.
