[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)
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Susan Alberts, Associate Professor
Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham NC 27708
phone 919-660-7272 fax 919-660-7293