Seed Dispersal Around Campus
by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Pick a plant. Find its offspring. Map where they are.
This is dispersal made visible at a scale a child can walk. Seedlings cluster near the parent and then there are outliers, and explaining the outliers requires a mechanism, which is exactly the reasoning the sheet is after.
Birds explain most of them.
The page has the site map, a plotting method, and an analysis frame. It works best with something prolific and identifiable at seedling stage. Papaya is ideal in the tropics, since it comes up everywhere and is unmistakable even when small.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
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