2.a) The canopy leaves located on the outer portion of a tree, are called sun leaves, and they have a larger sinus area to allow the shade leaves of the inner part of the tree to have access to light penetration. The sun leaves also have more intense amount of light intensity as opposed to shade leaves, hence why there are larger sinuses in sun leaves.
2.b) Shade leaves have a larger surface area because they have smaller sinuses to allow sufficient amount of light absorption. Once light bypass the sun leaves through their large sinuses, shade leaves have large surface area to allow light to penetrate onto their leaves, hence why there is more surface area and smaller sinuses in shade leaves.
2.c) When observing the difference value in
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Similar methods were used in another experiment to see the effect of human disturbance on bee populations in a forested ecosystem. The experimental methods tested on three different bee species and observed how bees were effected in landscape-scale and local-scale effects of human disturbances (land use); to test the landscape scale and local-scale, there were 40 sites for the bees to be in where each land site varied by the land cover and natural habitat (ranging from 25% land cover to 99% natural habitat in forest).1 The bees were captured using nets for two 30 minute periods between 0900 to 1200 hours and 1200 to 1500 hours, and they were within one 110 x 10 m transect of the sites during the peak season of bee activity.1 Both the articles articulate similar experimental methods to prove similar hypothesis’; both journals involve the study of species in human disturbed environments along with particular methods to show evidence to see if the hypothesis is supported or