Project:

Biodiversity of Trees

Students:

Mateo Mcglinchey, Matthew Campbell

School:

FMHS, Manhattan

Mentors:

Dora Miklos

Abstract:

Our experiment was to test the biodiversity in tree leaves of certain parks throughout the Bronx. These parks include Seton park and Van Courtlandt park on the west side and Seton Falls park and Northeast Bronx Educational park on the east side. The purpose of this experiment is to compare tree leaf biodiversity across different parks in the Bronx. New York City is already a big biodiversity hotspot and it will be interesting to see the genetic differences between parks just a few miles apart. NYC lies within the North American coastal plain, a large biodiversity hotspot. The Freshkills Park Alliance. (20, 05 29). Biodiversity in the City. Freshkills Park. Retrieved 12 19, 25, from https://freshkillspark.org/blog/biodiversity-in-the-city. Factors that could influence the biodiversity of these trees include weather, soil, population of trees within a park, animal populations, and littering. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1418034112. In this article we see a map of the tree biodiv

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