In this experiment, our goal was to test the differences in species diversity in two different environments. Species diversity is the abundance of, not only many organisms, but many different species in a given area. Greater diversity gives us greater variety, something that has been crucial to life as we know it today. There are a variety of different factors that contribute to species diversity, and include but are not limited to environmental factors such as pollution and weather. We selected Orchard Hill and Sylvan as our test grounds because we were driven to have two diverse and unique areas compared to other lab groups. In the environments we observed groundcover plants, vines and shrubs the spanned across the forests. It was our prediction that the test grounds around the Sylvan residential area would have the highest species diversity as opposed to orchard hill. The environmental factors surrounding Sylvan lead to our formal hypothesis; The more abundant resources and healthy environment is in an area, the higher the species diversity of that area will be- particularly as opposed to another area of lesser quality. Measuring our results on the Shannon Index, we expected to see that Sylvan had a lower Index number that Orchard Hill.
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