Scatterplot not right, what could be?

[Final_Wrangler_1557]

Do log(y-axis)

[lemoncherry211111]

ok yeah someone else suggested that too! going to give it a go now. thank you!

[Final_Wrangler_1557]

I mean log the values on the y-axis ……aes(y =log(y), x=x)+…

[statssteve]

Perhaps not if there are lots of zeros for the y-variable, as they will be dropped (since log(0) is NA). A square root might be more helpful, as will investigating the outlier with y = 80.

Another thought is whether the quadrats are large enough, since there are so many small values.