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45Ca Uptake
39
Acetone
2
Alizarin stain
28
Alkalinity Anomaly Technique (Smith and Key 1975)
3
Archimedes principle
48
Ash free dry weight (AFDW)
43
Bicinchoninic acid assay
46
Bradford 1976
29
Buoyant weight
1
CSF imaging
57
CT Scanning
10
Calculated from GIS shapefile
74
Calculated from Veron ecoregion shapefile
4
Callipers
33
Chloroform to methanol ratio
52
Cloning
40
Counted doublet with cell plate in samples of cells
42
DC Protein Assay Al Foil Marsh 1970
51
DGGE
34
Decalcified tissues measured with calipers
6
Depth gauge
9
Derived from range map
22
Derived from textual description
14
Dissection
49
Dried at 80 degrees C
50
Dried for 24 h at 40 degrees C
77
Dry density
11
Extracted from Coral ID digital compact disk
23
Extracted from data table
75
Faunal break cluster analysis
63
Filter combustion
62
Flow injection analyser
69
Fluorescence assay (relative quantities of RNA and DNA)
17
Fluorescence microscope
44
Formalin/acid
37
Frozen, airbrush
73
Genus age estimate
72
Growth form Mizerek grouping protocol
55
Growth form derived from Veron (2000) textual descriptions
56
Growth form derived from Wallace et al (2012) textual descriptions
78
Growth rate estimated from length-age growth functions
38
Hemocytometer counts
13
Histology
15
Image analysis
65
Irradiometer
5
Kobe porosimeter
31
Linear extension alizerin staining and calipers, bulk density wax dipping and buoyant weight
45
Lowery et al 1951
70
MCMC phylogenetic tip length
35
Measured on cross sections using stereomicroscope
36
Measured with callipers
16
Microscopy
58
Observation_field_or_laboratory
25
Oxygen consumption in chambers in the dark
24
Oxygen consumption in dark stirring chamber normalized to surface area by foil
26
Oxygen consumption in the dark in small flume
61
Oxygen meter
27
Oxygen production in the light in stirring chambers
68
PDZ Europa ANCA-GSL elemental analyzer
32
Product of linear extension and bulk density
66
Rain gauge
76
Random forests analyses (Darling et al. 2012)
59
Refractometer
54
Ruler measurement
60
Secchi disk
64
Sediment trap
53
Sequencing
12
Timed distance
7
Transect tape
41
Two counts from fluorescent images on hemocytometer
18
Weight
8
X-radiography (densitometer)
21
inferred
19
observation_field
20
observation_laboratory
67
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