Describe the use of Quadrats as a technique for sampling the distribution of organisms in their habitat

- Going to use Quadrats to take the population of daisy's on each side; grazed and ungrazed.

Sample has to be random so it's not biased, and it also has to be representative. Because of this we have to take a sample large enough that our estimate of the population will be as close to the true population as possible.

- The easiest way to do this is to plot a grid on a drawing/map of the land. Then have some random numbers to generate the x and y values. Lets say for example the numbers generated are (x, y) 3, 3

- Then the Quadrat will be placed at the coordinate 3, 3. Then the number of daisy's in that Quadrat must be counted and put into a table.

- This is 1 Quadrat done, but to get the best and most reliable results we would ideally want 10 Quadrats done. or more accurately at least 10% of the actual area of the land.

- Once the 10 Quadrat values have been put into a table then we would add up the number of daisy's and divide by the number of quadrats. This would give us the value of the number of daisy's per meter square.