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Various measurement on Paracentrotus lividus sea urchins providing from fishery (Brittany, France), or from a sea urchins farm in Normandy.
urchin_bio
A data frame with 19 variables:
origin
A factor with two levels: "Culture"
, and
"Fishery"
.
diameter1
Diameter (in mm) of the test measured at the ambitus (its widest part).
diameter2
A second diameter (in mm) measured at the ambitus,
perpendicular to the first one. The idea here is to calculate the average
of diameter1
and diameter2
in order to eliminate the effect of possible
slight departure from a nearly circular ambitus.
height
The height of the test (in mm), measured from month to anus, thus, orthogonally to the two diameters.
buoyant_weight
Weight (in g) of the sea urchin immersed in seawater.
weight
Weight (in g) of the whole animal.
solid_parts
Weight (in g) of the animal after draining its coelomic fluid out of the test.
integuments
Weight (in g) of the sea urchin after taking out the whole content of the test (coelomic fluid, digestive tract and gonads.
dry_integuments
Dry weight (in g) of the integuments.
digestive_tract
Weight (in g) of the digestive tract, including its content.
dry_digestive_tract
Dry weight (in g) of the digestive tract and its content.
gonads
Weight (in g) of the gonads.
dry_gonads
Dry weight (in g) of the gonads.
skeleton
Weight of the skeleton (g), calculated as the sum of lantern + test + spines.
lantern
Dry weight (in g) of the lantern (the jaw and teeth of the sea urchin).
test
Dry weight (in g) of the calcareous part of the test.
spines
Dry weight (in g) of calcareous parts of the spines.
maturity
Gonads maturity index (integer), measured on a scale of 3 states: state 0 means the gonad is absent or spent, state 1 means it is growing but not mature, and state 2 means the gonad is mature. This should be treated as a circular variable, since the reproductive cycle is 0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 0 (spawning).
sex
When it is possible, the sex of the animal is determined by
visual inspection of the gonads (factor with levels "F"
and "M"
).
A stratified sample was performed to make sure all size classes (from 5 to 5 mm in test diameter) from each sub-population are equally represented in the dataset. Hence, the size or weight-classes distributions among each population cannot be studied with this dataset. However, those data are more suitable to explore allometric relationships between body measurements and/or body parts of the sea urchins over the whole size range.
For further details on the farming of these sea urchins, see here.
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