Open LiamDBailey opened 5 years ago
Does this refer to a column indicating whether a brood was experimental/manipulated and fitness was affected? Or rather a column describing what type of manipulation was carried out?
We're thinking to create some broad categories that experiments would fall under. So far I've come up with:
PHENOLOGY: Experiments that affect phenology. For example, early season supplemental feeding.
SIZE: Experiments that affect the size of the clutch, brood, or number of fledglings. For example, egg removal.
PARENTS: Experiments that affect parentage. For example, cross-fostering experiments.
SURVIVAL: Experiments that affect the survival of adults or chicks. For example, disease or heavy metal exposure treatments.
Do you think these cover most experiments?
We would then probably need a separate Experiment table
that includes details about exactly what experimental manipulations were conducted.
That would definitely work, yes. I now wonder whether there are types of experiments that would fall under multiple categories? Of course, we can share these categories with the network and ask for input.
Partially solved with commit f5d56cf03671fa4315cab8abca85c6e94ac949e0; however, this just classifies as TRUE/FALSE. This is enough to allow us to distinguish experimental nests for quality_check, but needs to be more precise in the future.
For NIOO.
Add Experiment ID for each brood.