methods intro draft 2

Each figure was intended to show a spider web somewhere on the University of Massachusetts campus, its relative location, and a map marking its absolute location. For the purpose of replicability, many factors needed to be controlled and clearly described in the methods section. The featured web was chosen because it was substantially sized, relatively easy to locate, and in an area that allowed for photography. Moreover, the methods were created with specific details in mind to increase similarity between the original and the replicate. These included the location of the web based on nearby geographical features, utilization of specific dimensions for both the images and the labels, and description of how each of the three images were obtained and oriented. Within this paper, the original methods, the original figure, the resultant replicate, and the consequential differences and similarities will be examined.