Dataset: A. pisonii: fitness and diet

Name: Impact of diet variation on physiological and reproductive condition of A. pisonii in South Eastern US mangrove forests during 2013 (Variation in Metabolic Processes project)
Published: 2016-02-25
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:27.55045 E:-80.32683 S:27.55045 W:-80.32683

Project:

Linking Variation in Metabolic Processes as a Key to Prediction (Variation in Metabolic Processes)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Blaine D. Griffen (University of South Carolina)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

2016-02-25

Version Date:

2016-02-25

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Impact of diet variation on physiological and reproductive condition of A. pisonii in South Eastern US mangrove forests during 2013 (Variation in Metabolic Processes project)

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Description

Fitness-associated consequences of an omnivorous diet for the mangrove tree crab Aratus pisonii. Data were collected June-August 2012.

Related Reference:
Riley M, Vogel M, Griffen B. 2014. Fitness-associated consequences of an omnivorous diet for the mangrove tree crab Aratus pisonii. Aquatic Biology 20:35-43, DOI: 10.3354/ab00543.

Methods & Sampling

For complete description of methodology, see pdf

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date, reference information
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard
- changed NA and blank cells to nd (no data)
- added site, lat and lon for mapping purposes

Data Files

File
Apisonii_diet.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 6.21 KB) MD5:40d3c21c4ed6efdd84fbba923698f407 Primary data file for dataset ID 639095

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1129166

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Griffen_mangroves		2013-06-01	Univ_S_Carolina	Dr Blaine D. Griffen (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site	location of red mangrove tree leaf collection	unitless	site
lat	Latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
crab	individual crab identification	unitless	sample
Rm_diet	R. mangle as proportion of diet	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
cricket_diet	Cricket as proportion of diet	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
food_offered	Amount of food offered daily (% of body weight)	percent	no_bcodmo_term
dry_wgt_0	Estimated dry weight at day=0	grams	dry_wgt_globec
carap_width_0	Carapace width at day=0	millimeters	width
carap_width_42	Carapace width at day=42	millimeters	width
gut_width_42	Gut width at day=42	millimeters	width
survived	Survived experiment?	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
molted	Molted during experiment?	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
consum_day	Mean daily food consumption	grams	no_bcodmo_term
consum_cricket	Mean daily cricket consumption	grams	no_bcodmo_term
consum_Rm	Mean daily R. mangle consumption	grams	no_bcodmo_term
consum_wgt	Mean daily food consumption	grams/ body weight (grams)	no_bcodmo_term
consum_cricket_wgt	Mean daily cricket consumption	grams/ body weight (grams)	no_bcodmo_term
consum_Rm_wgt	Mean daily R. mangle consumption	grams/ body weight (grams)	no_bcodmo_term
assimilation	Mean assimilation efficiency	percent	no_bcodmo_term
larval_mass	Total larval mass produced	grams	mass
ovary_mass	Post-experimental ovary mass	grams	mass
hepatopan_mass_end	Post-experimental hepatopancreas mass	grams	mass
body_mass_no_ovary_hep	Post-experimental body mass without ovary or hepatopancreas	grams	mass
body_biomass_end	Post-experimental total body biomass	grams	mass
gonadosomatic_index	Gonadosomatic Index	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
hepatosomatic_index	Hepatosomatic Index	unitless	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: A. pisonii: fitness and diet