Phillips_2011 - Experiment 1 SettlementChallenge18: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/725392

Phillips_2011 - Experiment 2 Larval Mortality: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/725880

Phillips_2011 - Experiment 2 Larval Size: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/725943

Phillips_2011 - Experiment 2 Larval Velum Size: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/725957

Phillips_2011 - Experiment 2 Settlement Challenge 6: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/725973 (Current page)

Phillips_2011 - Experiment 2 Settlement Challenge 8: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/726002

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In this experiment, larval growth and metamorposis was tested using different food levels.

Larvae hatched on October 10, 2009 and ~50 were distributed into each tubs on 500mL filtered sea water (FSW). Because the greatest metamorphic success was in the Isochrysis galbana treatment during experiment 1, only that species was used in this experiment. Three food densities were created high food (4 x 104 cells mL-1 ), low food (4 x 103 cells mL-1 ) plus an Unfed treatment in which larvae were raised in FSW.

Larvae in this experiment were placed in settlement challenges at 6- and 8-day post-hatch. Procedures were as in the first experiment, except that on each day 15 larvae from each replicate container within each food treatment were pooled, then redistributed into three replicate containers with coral rubble in 200 mL FSW (total N = 45 larvae from each food treatment). Also, mortality was so high in the 6-day challenge that the challenge was terminated after 2 days rather than 3.

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