Question

You are hired as a summer student to investigate the distribution of Himalayan Blackberry on Burnaby Mountain. This invasive foreign species is becoming increasingly widespread in the lower mainland, and there is concern that the UniverCity development will increase its abundance on the mountain. You decide to conduct experiments on the effect of one relevant abiotic factor on the Blackberry. Outline your research question, state your hypotheses, and describe your experimental design.

Answer 1

Outline : abiotic factors that affect plants are temperature, salinity, wind, water and gas components in environemnt. Since Himalayan blackbeeries that grown in mountains became weed like species in low mainland, we need to study the effect of temperature on spreading of backberry

Hypothesis : temperature difference cause significant difference in seed dispersal ability or seed germination ability of blackberry

Experimental design :

Sample has to be collcete from mountain and lower mainland blackberries

Lower mainland Seed germination ability has to be analysed and compared with mountain seeds

Analyse Significance difference between mountain and lower main land balckberry seed germination and dispersal is present or not