READ ME File For 'Dataset supporting University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis 'The impacts of nutrient enrichment and skewed nitrogen: phosphorus (N:P) stoichiometries on the skeletal microstructure and geochemistry of zooxanthellate corals'.'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2520

ReadMe Author: Michael Buckingham, University of Southampton orcid ID 0000-0002-8946-9854
This dataset supports the thesis entitled The impacts of nutrient enrichment and skewed nitrogen: phosphorus (N:P) stoichiometries on the skeletal microstructure and geochemistry of zooxanthellate corals'.'
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: [2023]

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA

This dataset contains:
Please note a large amount of data used for this project was lost. Missing files are no longer available. 

Each CT scan file (.vol) file is accompanied by a .vgi file which contains metadata. Some of this metadata is required to open the CSV files when opening through ImageJ.

For Acropora 100-day culture: 
CZ1 to CZ 6 = HNHP treatment,
CZ7 to CZ12 = LNLP treatment,
CZ13 to CZ18 = HNLP treatment,
CZ19 to CZ24 =LNHP treatment and 
CZ25 to CZ30 = LNLP + fish treatment (not used).

Within the mass spectrometry files

For Mass spectrometry relating to Stable isotopes the full results can be obtained in the file named �Acropora 13C & 18O re-runs�.


For mass spectrometry relating to trace elements the raw data is presented in a separate folder from cleaned data. Cleaned data has had anomalous and obviously erroneous processing errors screened out (as described in the methods section of Chapter 4). The cleaned data folder also contains various statistical analyses carried out during the processing of the data.

The data will be available 'on request' after the specified embargo period 31/3/25

Date of data collection: 2017-2022

Information about geographic location of data collection: 

Licence:
CC-BY

Related projects/Funders:
Microns2Reefs - From microns to reefs: mechanistic insights into coral biomineralisation and the fate of coral reefs
Project: EU › EU Award

Defining nutritional bottlenecks of reef corals growth and stress tolerance
Project: Research Councils › Research Councils Award

Related publication:
Buckingham, M.C., D’Angelo, C., Chalk, T.B. et al. Impact of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) enrichment and skewed N:P stoichiometry on the skeletal formation and microstructure of symbiotic reef corals. Coral Reefs 41, 1147–1159 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02223-0


Date that the file was created: February, 2023


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