Elevation and Latitude Intro

Vegetation generally grows in a pattern which is determined by climate. Climate is an enduring weather pattern over a given area. Due to the longevity of those weather patterns, vegetation growth is limited to what plants can tolerate those long-term weather conditions. These patterns can also hold true when comparing altitude and elevation to latitude. Altitude and elevation vegetation patterns mirror latitude vegetation patterns. To determine whether climate governs vegetation the abundance of Vaccinium vacillans from three different sites were recorded. Vegetation within a region at high altitudes should resemble that of vegetation at high latitudes. It was predicted that abundance of Vaccinium vacillans will show analogous changes as elevation and latitude increase.