Collect, summarize, and interpret point count data Conduct habitat assessments a

Collect, summarize, and interpret point count data
Conduct habitat assessments and relate the habitat data to abundance data
Develop creative wildlife management recommendations
Step One: Collect, summarize, and interpret point count data for Muscovy ducks at 7 USF wetlands (360 photos will be provided).
Step Two: Conduct habitat assessments of 7 USF wetlands and relate the habitat data to the abundance data summarized in Step One.
Step Three: Use the findings from Step Two, along with additional readings, to develop creative management recommendations for Muscovy ducks on USF campus.
In part A of the first step, you will conduct point count surveys for Muscovy ducks at seven wetlands on USF campus (This link will take you there https://kuula.co/profile/danielusf ) . The point counts will be conducted in a digital environment using pre-collected 360 degree photospheres of each site. You will complete point counts at the different wetlands. Point count data for 10 visits to each wetland will be analyzed later in this assignment. However, some data is already provided; you must fill in the missing data using the imagery provided. For example, students will conduct point counts for visits 1 and 2 for Castor Pond, as data for visits 3 through 10 is already provided. To reduce confusion, imagery is only provided for the missing counts.
*Template of Data collection spread sheet is attached*
*summary statistics charts A & B are attached*
In part A above, you collected point count data for Muscovy ducks. Now, in part B , students, individually or in small groups, will summarize the resulting point counts using descriptive statistics.
After compiling the point count data for all sites and visits, students will compute some basic summary statistics in order to summarize Muscovy duck abundance at each site.
You will calculate the following measures for each wetland, as described in lecture, and add them to the spreadsheet as shown below.
Minimum count (the lowest count observed at a wetland across all site visits)
Maximum count (the highest count observed at a wetland across all site visits)
Mean count (the average count observed at a wetland across all site visits)
% Occupancy (the percentage of visits that at least one Muscovy duck was observed at a wetland)
Please use this assignment to submit the Point Count Data Spreadsheet with the summary statistics computed. The statistics will be submitted with Part C.
*summary statistics charts A & B are attached*
In Part A, you collected point count data for the purposes of estimating Muscovy duck abundance. In part B, you summarized the data using four descriptive summary statistics. Now in Part C , you will interpret the results by answering the following questions:
Describe, in text, patterns of Muscovy duck abundance at each pond.
Which of the four summary measures you computed in Part B do you think best represents Muscovy duck abundance at each wetland? Why?
What factors do you think are responsible for differences in Muscovy duck abundance across the different wetlands?
Do you think these 10 visits are sufficient to estimate the true abundance of Muscovy ducks at each wetland? Why? For future studies of Muscovy ducks on campus, what kind of sampling protocol might you recommend (e.g. how often, time of day)?
There will be two charts to complete & there should only be written responses for Part C
There are two PDF that can be used as references. No citation page is required.