Developmental effects of heatwave conditions on the early life stages of a coral reef fish

Full description

This dataset is of traits measured from ~600 juvenile coral reef damselfish (species: Acanthochromis polyacanthus) after differing lengths of exposure from hatching to heatwave conditions. The traits measured were escape performance, standard length, weight, crititcal thermal maximum, and sex.

Clarifying some of the column headers in the dataset:

Fish: unique fish ID

UqRep: unique fish tank ID

Treatment: C = 108 days exposure to control temperatures post hatching and 3d = 3 days, 7d = 7 days, 30d = 30 days, H = 108 days exposure to +2C post hatching

Family: four different family lines

TestingT: performance/testing temperature of escape response trials in Celsius

W: wet weight in g

SL: standard length in mm

StartT: starting temperature for critical thermal maximum trials in Celsius

CTM: critical thermal maximum in Celsius

The rest of the columns pertain to the escape performance traits.

Video: unique escape performance trial ID

Stimdist: distance from stimulus on impact in mm

Stimdirect: orientation from stimulus on impact in degrees

StimdirectR: orientation from stimulus on impact in radian

LatencyMS: time from stimulus impact until response in milliseconds

DuratMS: duration of C-start escape response in milliseconds

Dist: distance travelled of C-start escape response in mm

VeloMS: mean speed of C-start escape response in m s^-1

MaxVeloMS: maximum speed of C-start escape response in m s^-1

EndDirect: direction after C-start escape response in degrees

EndDirectR: direction after C-start escape response in radian

Notes

The R scripts used to analyse the data can be downloaded via Supplementary Information in the Related Publication.