[Babase] Sexskin Datasheet

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:33:57 -0500


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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