Group+20

**__Group Members__: Mansur Batchelor, Milly Fellows, *Rowena Gordon*, Jacob Pearson**



 * We will conduct a belt transect that will sample individuals from the 3 habitat types. We will take the same number of individuals from each sample site from a predetermined, set area in order to standardise the effort used for each sample.**


 * __Advantages__:**
 * **We are taking all of our samples at one altitude which eliminates altitude as a variable**
 * **We have included all of the 3 different habitat types**
 * **Because of the positioning of the samples we should be able to test whether there has been a founder event**
 * **We can test to see if there is any gene flow between the populations in the different areas**
 * **As we are collecting the same number of individuals from a set area our data will be quantitative, allowing us to compare results across different studies**
 * __Disadvantages:__**
 * **If altitude affects polymorphism we will not be able to see these effects as the altitude is the same for all the sample sites**
 * **We have not combined our sampling with another group to get more results, this means that there may not be enough data for us to be able to reach any conclusions**
 * **There is only 1 sample from the woodland area, the different habitats are not equally represented which may affect any conclusions we come to regarding the woodland habitat sample**