Parameter: Treatment

Dataset: 
Ocean warming & acidification experiment: Acartia hudsonica population fitness
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: 
Integer
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Conversion Utility: 
No Data Value: 
Description: 
The treatment that the orgnaisms were evaluated in, and where traits were measured and fitness was estimated. 1 = ambient (AM): temperature = 18 ?C, pCO2 = 400 uatm. 2 = ocean acidification (OA): temperature = 18 ?C, pCO2= 2000 uatm. 3 = ocean warming (OW): temperature = 22 ?C, pCO2 = 400 uatm. 4 = ocean warming and acidification (OWA): temperature = 22 ?C, pCO2 = 2,000 uatm.