We have been doing an experiment examining the effects of intraspecific competition on various measures of fitness in the plant Brassica rapa. We used a variety that has been selected for its fast growth so that we can study it in the lab over a short period of time.
Recall that each group planted a single replicate of each of the three treatments (low density of seeds (2), medium density of seeds (5), and high density of seeds (10). In reality, you cannot do a statistical analysis to look for significant differences between the treatments with just one replicate, so we will be analyzing the data for ALL the groups of students across ALL the lab sections of this class.
This week in lab, your IA will walk you all through how we will, as a class, analyze this plant competition experiment data (using ANOVA, which is introduced in the video below). You are free to use the data file to do these analyses and create your own figures if you have more advanced skills in statistics. However, your IA during labs this week will provide you with the information that you will need to write the Results section of your Plant Competition Paper that you have been working on (recall you have written the Introduction, Methods and Literature Cited sections already, and have received feedback on those parts of the Scientific Paper from your IA).
The Results section forms the basis for you to draw conclusions, and write the Discussion of the paper, and relate your findings back to your research hypotheses that are stated in the Introduction, as well as to the broader context of the importance of competition in plant ecology and evolution.
Once you have these written, then you will put the paper together complete with the Title page and Abstract, as discussed earlier when we went over the APA style for submitting student papers: the organization of your scientific paper is: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Literature Cited (References), Figures/Figure Legends
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