The Effect of Sunlight on BiomassTopic: The Effect of Sunlight on BiomassAim: To investigate the difference in biomass due to exposure to sunlight Research question: How does sun exposure affect above ground dry biomass of grass? Apparatus:½ meter square quadrat 10 plastic bags KnifeScale LabelsMethod: Label plastic bags from one to ten. Let one to five be for shaded and six to ten for unshaded regions.Various areas around the school that are either shaded or exposed to sunlight throughout the day were chosen. In any of the shaded regions a ½ meter squared quadrat was thrown randomly within the boundaries of the area. Each ½ meter squared quadrat was divided into four (¼ meter squared) and any random square was chosen to sample grass from.A knife is then used to cut all the grass within the ¼ meter square and collected in plastic bag labelled one. This is repeated in the other shaded regions around the school until five bags are collected This is repeated for the unshaded regions. The mass of the grass in each bag was then measured using a scale and recorded. Each grass sample was placed in specific trays and dried in the sun for two days.After two days passed the new masses of all grass samples was measured and recorded. Variables: Independent variableSun exposure Dependent variableDry biomassOther variablesAmount of water Qualitative data:Grass in shaded areas appeared greener than grass in areas exposed to the sunWhen grass was placed in plastic bags after some time water droplets formed on the inside of the bagsMore water was observed in bags with shaded grass than in bags with grass that was not shadedChange in mass observed in shaded grass samples was generally greater than in the not shaded regions Quantitative data:The change in Biomass of Collected GrassMass of Grass /g ±0.01SampleInitial MassFinal MassChange in MassShadedUnshadedShadedUnshadedShadedUnshaded15.943.382.893.253.050.1322.194.431.134.011.060.4234.494.972.564.311.930.66424.283.2415.342.988.940.26510.265.907.454.992.810.91
Research Question: How does the following effect of sunlight on biofertilization have an affect upon biofertilization Research question: “The Effect of Sunlight on BiofertilizationApparatus:¬metre square quadrat 10 plastic bag KnifeScale LabelsMethod: Knife scales from one to ten. Let one to five be for shaded and six to ten for unshaded regions.Various areas around the school that are either shaded or exposed to sunlight throughout the day were chosen. In any of the shaded regions a ½ meter squared quadrat was thrown randomly within the boundaries of the area.
I know you’re a bit out of your depth but this is an experiment I’ve been working on and I’ll start in the coming days. What about the potential impact of sunlight on biofertilization?
I will get back to you when the data becomes available.
What is the potential of sunlight changing the biofertilization process in any areas where there is no sun?
As I mentioned earlier in the research question:
This research question was recently conducted at the School of Chemistry in Kyoto, Japan and I hope to gain a better understanding and be able to explore the impact that sunlight may have on biofertilization. Although the results do not yet reach conclusive conclusions on the impact of sunlight on biofertilization, it appears that sunlight is a variable that can vary greatly from one season to the next. It can also affect the ability of plants to thrive in particular climate variations. However, there is some evidence that when sunlight is low the ability of plants to grow is not limited to the dry zones of this year. I think research has begun to gather more information on the potential role of sunlight as a proxy for an overall biological condition in the population.
If you’d like to contact me for further information or if you have further questions about the study you’ll be happy to hear from me. I would be happy for you to bring along a few of your own photographs that will help us explore the potential of sunlight affecting biofertilization. My personal favorites were the first two photos taken after my research at Kyoto University in March (above). The first one shows me sitting