October 4th, 2022 Walk through Webster Woods/Hammond Pond

Today I decided to go beyond the BC campus and walk over to Hammond Pond in Newton. When I first arrived I saw some fungus on the trees and rocks that were green. I saw a body of water that was connected to a standing river that weaved around the whole trail. I wandered around for a while and found it difficult to find any fungus other than the green fungus until I started to look under the brush on the sides of the trial. There, I found many mushrooms and sticks with fungus growing on them. All of the different fungi I saw differed in shape, size, and color, showing high biodiversity. As previously stated, I saw the same looking fungus on both trees and rocks, maybe this could be a cause of speciation through sympatric speciation because they both inhabit the same area but are separated by the tree or rock they grow on. The sympatric speciation event might cause a predominate rock-favoring and or tree-favoring population to split off and form a new species.

Julkaistu lokakuu 4, 2022 06:52 IP. käyttäjältä katie_ozzie