Interaction

As part of the the Writing in Biology class of Spring 2019 in University of Massachusetts Amherst I had to create a multi-panel figure that depicted an interspecific interaction that was replicable. The majority of scientific articles include a methods section, this section allows other scientists to replicate the results that were obtained in the original article. The purpose of this project is to help develop the skills needed to write a thorough methods that can be replicated. In this project, the interspecific interaction between a lichen and a maple red tree will be photographed. The interaction that most lichen and trees shared can be classified as commensalism since trees do not derive harm from having lichens perched on their trunks and branches.