Parameter: Treatment

Dataset: 
Macroalgal biodiversity experiment: coral growth and tissue mortality data
Parameter: 
treatment
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 treatment
Short Description:
 treatment
Official Name:
 treatment
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

Experimental conditions applied to experimental units.  In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
Treatment
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Datatype: 
String
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Description: 

Denotes the experimental macroalgal treatments applied to the upper surface of the plots in our manipulative experiment. These included monocultures of (1) Sargassum pacificum, (2) Turbinaria ornata, or (3) Amansia rhodantha, (4) polycultures containing all three species, (5) plots with plastic algal mimics, and (6) control plots where corals, but not living algae or physical mimics, were present (12 plots per treatment; Figure 1 of Clements et al., 2024).