Similar Biodiversity in the North and South Sides of Willowbrook Park Pond

Nelson Grajales, Jessica Ifeanyi, Sara Turku, Josie Wong, and Daniel Wronski

Staten Island offers a blend of natural and unnatural environments in one place. Located in the center of Staten Island is the man-made pond of Willowbrook Park Pond. There are varying levels of human interference around the pond, with the southern region having a greater level of human interference than the northern region. Based on this, we hypothesized that the Southern region would have a slightly higher level of biodiversity of flora than the Northern region.

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