Data for: Hudson River juvenile Blueback herring avoid consuming microplastics
Description
Each fish in this dataset was captured in the summer of 2016 in the Hudson River near Coxsackie, NY via beach seine. PrelimFish: spec #, total length (mm), weight (g), species, and comments of all fish FishDietData: zooplankton counts and microplastic counts within the gut of all fish, zooplankton counts and microplastic counts within the stream sample, zooplankton counts and microplastics counts within each lab control; microplastics are subdivided by both color and type CompData: compilation of zooplankton/plastic counts and relevant PrelimFish data into one chart, removal of data points that had been compromised (dropped, spilled, mislabelled, etc), includes calculated totals per type and color Cor&calc: CompData + calculations for the proportion of each diet/stream sample made up of each color/type of plastic, proportion of each diet/stream sample made up of zooplankton, proportion of each diet/stream sample made up of plastic as a whole, Jacob's Modified Electivity (JME) Index for each color/type of plastic in each gut, JME for zooplankton in each gut, repeats of final row of data for ease of computation; all diet samples were adjusted based on the lab control and the stream sample was adjusted based on the stream control FishFinaltxt: Cor&calc data but only the columns needed for statistical analysis (totals, proportions, and JME's... no individual counts, excludes stream samples and controls) UsedForStats: subset of the data that was used for statistical analysis (only includes the portion of the cor&calc data that was analyzed by the same individual who analyzed the stream sample, only includes blueback herring) Rresults: summary of results obtained by analyzing UsedForStats in R Abbreviation key: Red highlight - sample was compromised, data removed from analysis OthZoo - all other zooplankton taxa Daph - daphnia Amph - amphipod FlyLarv - fly larva Invert - recording mistake, this data point was removed from final analysis Ins larv - insect larva Tot - total Org - organic material Red - red plastic Or - orange plastic Yel - yellow plastic Grn - green plastic Blu - blue plastic Pur - purple plastic Wht - white plastic Clr - clear plastic Blk - black plastic Gry - gray plastic Gld - gold plastic Brwn - brown plastic Tan - tan plastic Fib - fiber Flm - film Frg - fragment Fm - foam Bd - bead LC - lab control TOTAL - total number of particles (organic + plastic) Prp - proportion (proportion of the total diet made up of this type of particle) JME - Jacob's Modified Electivity Index Plas - plastic CondInd - coefficient of condition (unitless) Sig - significant (yes/no) Dir - direction (positive/negative)