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: 

experimental treatment:
CTRL = no nutrient additions;
+Si = addition of volume of 0.1M sodium metasilicate (Na2SiO3) solution to increase ambient dissolved silicon by 20uM;
+Fe = addition of volume of 0.01mM ferric chloride (FeCl3) for a total concentration of 1nM;
+Si+Fe = addition of both Si + Fe;
+N = addition of volume of 0.1M sodium nitrate (NaNO3) solution to 20uM;
+Si+N = addition of both Si + N.