Harriman State Park Essay

The Result With full data sheet of Rampo Valley Reservation park and Harriman State Park, we determine the relative density, frequency, relative frequency, relative dominance and important value. <Table 1> is Ramapo Valley Reservation Park’s table . <Table 2> is Harriman State Park’s table. Relative density is percentage of number of individual of one species by sum of the individuals of all species. Relative frequency is percentage of frequency by sum of the frequencies of all species. Relative dominance is percentage of total basal area of one species by sum of the basal areas of all species.Importance Value is sum of relative density, relative dominance and relative frequency (Sewanee Education). The highest important value in Ramapo Valley County Reservation …show more content…
Also, we can easily determine the result with the <Table1 >and <Table 2>. For the result, when you combine two full datas, sugar maple has the highest important value. Pin Oak, Ah, Aspen, Dogwood, Mountain Laurel and Elm has the lowest important value which means these trees are not present in both forest/parks. Most of trees are overlapping that it helps to prove experimenter ’s hypothesis. Hypothesis is both Harriman State Park and Rampage Valley County Reservation Park are temperate deciduous forest, so they have similar behavior and composition of trees. According to Loeb’s paper ,“Pre-European settlement forests in southern East New Jersey were dominated by oak and pine with cedar and maple, probably the species white cedar and red maple common in some areas.”(Loeb, 1987) and on the following contents said that now in most of area, cedar is not present. It also helps to prove hypothesis is right. During the procedure, we did not find any cedar, but we found red maple all around forest/park which has 26.0808018 in Rampo Park and 30.364473in Harriman state park. These are the highest important value, but it is pretty high