Danby Grasslands Insect diversity and abundance transect experiment

<p>The data in the excel sheet was from an experiment conducted on Tuesday September 29th 2015, in the Danby Grasslands at York University between the times of 2:45pm and 4:45pm. Group members that assisted in data collection: Naduni, Sharan, and Stanley. The temperature was 15 degrees celsius, light winds and moderate precipitation was constant through the collection. a transect was measured for 15 meters, and insects were swept in a scooping motion along the entire distance, perpendicular to the transect itself. After sweeping, number of insects, and total amount of species were recorded. The process was repeated 10 times in somewhat randomly selected areas. By means of that the conductor of the experiment closed their eyes and spun around 3 times took 10 steps and laid down the transect. The experiment was conducted by Bryson Chandrarajan.