... and non-trampled areas. A MannWhitney 'U' test was used to find the correlation, the critical value for n1 was 10 and the same for n2, the smallest 'U' value was less than 23, which meant that the null hypothesis was accepted. INTRODUCTION I went to Wimbledon and Putney common on a cold, wet and windy day the temperature was approximately 10oC. This variable meant that there were not as many people in the park as there usually was but mainly the people out to walk their dogs. The area that I carried out my investigation was near the windmill, which is one of the busiest places in the park because there is a café and a car park a minute away. This was a suitable place to take data from because it matched the criteria of counting the species found in trampled areas. I was on the common for two days in ...

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