Main Contents and Rational For Transects as an Educational Tool

SAMPLE Transects from Peg 5:
See Transect A0050101
See Transect A0050102
See Transect A0050103

Transect Peg locations at Race Rocks	Belt Transects from Peg 15 2003 with kite diagrams and photo records.
Ragen and Tara with Garry Peg 15 Transect, 1999	An Underwater Transect.
Ecological Niche Models	Models of Intertidal Zonation of Halosaccion Glandiforme:
Ecological Niche of Anthopleura elegantissima at Race Rocks.	(Protocol) Marine Bird Monitoring at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve
Biology Field trip on the West Side of Race Rocks

Transects as a Tool for Collaborative Learning ( A BioQuest Project

RESEARCH IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD USING TRANSECTS

The following are links to sites with information on Ecological Transects.

Offwell Woodland and Wildlife Trust:
A good site with Ecological Sampling Methods
http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/biol_sampl_cont.htm
An On-line Rocky Intertidal Transect
Conducted at the Outer Island Unit of the
Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge
(Long Island Sound, Connecticut)
http://web.ccsu.edu/faculty/penniman/intertidal/Main.htm
Rapid Ecological Assessment
Mayflower Bocawina National Park, Stann Creek District, Belize
http://biological-diversity.info/mayflower_method.htm

Volcano Succession Mt. St. Helen’s – This database has a number of images taken over a period of time of different successional stages in several ecosystems at Mount St. Helen’s . The images could be used with NIH Image to quantify the effects of the “environmental gradient” time.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/mtsthelensweb/index.html

Link to  references on the Ecoreserves.bc.ca site on Ecological Monitoring