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Plant response to overcrowding – Lemna minor example

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Relative importance of competition and plant-soil feedback, their synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence

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C. Durand, V. Ruban & A. Amblès (2004) Mobility of Trace Metals in Retention Pond Sediments, Environmental Technology, 25:8, 881-888

Correction to: An update and reassessment of fern and lycophyte diversity data in the Japanese Archipelago

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In Fall 2019, as part of the Junior Writing Class at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I conducted a project to produce careful writing such that an exact replica of the obtained results can be reproduced. The Methods project is influenced by the idea that scientists must be able to carry out an experiment and reproduce the exact results if they were to also perform the experiment. The goal of the Methods project is to learn how to create a multi-panel scientific figure and ultimately compare an image with someone else’s replicate of your image, who has followed your outlined methods. The topic of the experiment was phytophagy or the eating of plants. The subject that was chosen for this experiment was a leaf with a hole in it. This was inspired by the simplicity of the subject.

• Install R and Rcmdr.
• Refer to R Commander Installation Notes for details: http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html
  • Only use binary sources
  • One a Mac, be sure to turn off "App Nap" (until "Tools" menu.)
• Import the data:
  • In Rcmdr. under “Data” menu “Import data” from “text file”
  • Set the “Field Separator” to “Commas”.
  • Navigate to the CSV file and select it.
  • Click the “Edit data set” button to open the data set in a window.
  • Make a note of all outliers (to put in the legend of the figure).
  • Click on the number of each row with an outlier, then right-click and “Delete current row”.
  • Click OK to save edited data set.
• Under “Graphs” choose “Scatterplot matrix...”
  • Select all three variables.
  • Click “Plot by groups”, select Gender, and click OK.
  • Click “Options” and select the checkbox for Least-squares line and click OK.
  • Check for outliers and repeat as necessary.
• Each student independently choose one pair of variables to report in a scatter plot
  • Choose independent and dependent variables
  • Click “Plot by groups”, select Sex, and click OK.
  • Click “Options” and select the checkbox for Least-squares line and click OK.
  • Save as PDF (use this for posters)
  • Convert to PNG (use this to post at website)
  • Post as Image: write legend that includes title, description, and reports outliers.
  • (If time available, report relevant statistics, e.g. means, linear regression, or one-way ANOVA)

GIYF and here is a book for additional assistance: https://stellmack.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua2461/f/media/_the_rcmdr_gu...

Please download this directory, unzip it, and work in your group to analyze the data: https://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/data_practice/data_practice_files.tar.gz