[Babase] Sexskin Datasheet

Jeanne Altmann babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:52:46 -0500


yes on both counts,
j

At 05:33 PM 2/3/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks -- just a couple of clarifying question:
>
>-you want JUST size and not whether it is D or T? (I know this can be got 
>from cycles info)
>-You want size both during the turgescent and deturgescent phase? (ie do 
>the dates you list include both?)
>
>Susan
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Attached is an Excel version of the sexskin datasheet for Leah as well as 
>>readme documented explaining the queries used to produce it.
>>
>>In short, it includes one row for every day a mature female or juvenile 
>>female within 120 days of maturity was censused.  I kept columns for the 
>>animal's sname, date of census, and group and created an empty column for 
>>sexskin size. With regard to the time period included, I started with 1 
>>January 2002 and continued through to the latest census data in the 
>>system (the end of July 2004 in most cases).   To make entry from the 
>>monitoring notebooks easiest (assuming the Duke sexskin files are 
>>organized in the same way as the ones at Princeton), the data is sorted 
>>by year, then group, then date, and finally sname.
>>
>>Leah (or whoever does the data entry), don't worry if some of the 
>>juvenile females included in this spreadsheet did not have their sexskins 
>>scored on the dates listed.  The team typically would begin monitoring a 
>>juvenile's sexskin by then, but I'm sure exceptions exist.  In these 
>>cases, please enter the sexskin size as "X" - that will flag the rows for 
>>me and I can later delete them before converting the file to FoxPro.
>>Thanks,
>>Catherine
>>
>>--
>>Catherine Markham
>>Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>>Princeton University
>>Phone: (609) 258-6898 Fax: (609) 258-2712
>>
>>
>>Attachment converted: cisticola:Sexskin Datasheet.xls (XLS4/«IC») (0006B4AD)
>>Attachment converted: cisticola:Sexskin Data Entry Readme.doc (WDBN/«IC») 
>>(0006B4AE)
>
>
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