Question

Prof. Wood’s research group at Cal State LA is interested in avian ecology. They are currently conducting a local study in which they record the number of black phoebe birds living in different species of mature trees (e.g., oak, sycamore, palm, etc.) to determine what the black phoebe’s preferred habitat is.  Which type of plot would best summarize these data?

Answer 1

The Answer is Histogram.

A histogram is like a bar graph of different heights. The bars represent the species of tree and the height of the bar represents the no. of birds found in each tree. Scattered plot is suitable to get a niche or habitat range. Segmented bar chart is used to show multiple descrete values within same bar.