RESEARCH DESIGN
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Systematically check elm trees throughout campus, develop a sampling system perhaps look at all the leaves on a set number of branches and categorize activity that way? I saw a paper that deemed it necessary to rate the leaves locations from the trunk should we define sections either fractionally or with set distance and catalog that information as well?
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Sample leaves for surface area/ density with procedure from Walczak, which had density weighed on leaves next to leaf miners as to get pre infected values
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Note leaf symmetry on any infected leaf? You have both read that paper and I have not but I feel like we should just be cataloging infected leaves in their general properties as they are the ones that got infected presumably for their structure
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Catalog all data and look to see relationships if any for the various leaf miners and trees?
SPECIFIC AIMS
To collect data on leaf miners infesting elm trees, this would include trying to identify them in the book, and cataloging them
To collect general data on elm leaves, this is probably mostly through literature, however, we can still go and make observations
To try and discern the causes behind the different leaf miners, with specific interest on the stigmella multispicata and the trees it may or may not have affected, this includes the different types of elms but we may also consider searching the nearby trees for evidence of the miner as well
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