Parameter: diet

Dataset: 
Hemigrapsus diet 2 (MEPS 2015)
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: 
diet
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

dietary treatment fed to individual crabs:
All - all diet types offered
Animal - all animal food types offered
Plant - all algal food types offered
Barancle - only barnacles offered (Semibalanus balanoides)
Crab - conspecifics offered (Hemigrapsus sanguineus)
Snail - only snails offered (Littorina littorea)
Chondrus - only the alga Chondrus crisups offered
Fucus - only the alga Fucus vesiculosus offered
Mastocarpus - only the alga Mastocarpus stallatus offered