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A student wanted to know how the abundance of daisies changed between open grassland and
woodland.
She placed a rope running from a grassy field into a wood.
At each of the sites marked along the rope she measured the number of daisy plants enclosed in an
area of one metre squared.
Woodland Grassland
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Sample sites
Her results are recorded in the table below.
Sample site 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
No. of daisy plants per
19 20 18 27 12 8 4 1 0 0
metre squared
Is there a statistically significant relationship between location and abundance of the daisies? Use
Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient (rs) in your analysis of the results
What, if any, is the relationship between temperature and abundance of the daisies? Use Spearman’s Rank
Correlation Coefficient (rs) in your analysis of the results
GHB 2011