| Name | Column Label | Definition | Type of Value | Measurement Type | Measurement Domain | Missing Value Code | Accuracy Report | Accuracy Assessment | Coverage | Method |
| Site |
| Experimental study site/estuary within each region; Two sites per region |
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| Cage # |
| ID number of caging enclosure |
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| Def | Number assigned based on relative positioning to other cages |
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| Treatment |
| Experimental treatment |
| nominal |
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| Subcage/phantom |
| Indicates whether the focal cluster was placed in a subcage or phantom cage location |
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| Position |
| Position at which individual clam was assigned within the cage |
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| Def | Facing marsh, position A was the left-most corner of the cage. Other positions were assigned alphabetically in a clockwise order. |
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| Tag # |
| Tag ID of focal cluster |
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| Def | Randomly assigned tag ID; ID consists of color and number |
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| Initial weight (g) |
| Initial mass of cluster |
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| Initial # live |
| Initial number of live adult oysters in cluster (>25mm) |
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| Unit | dimensionless |
| Type | natural |
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| Initial # gapers |
| Initial number of gaping adult oysters in cluster (>25mm) |
| ratio |
| Unit | dimensionless |
| Type | natural |
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| Initial # spat |
| Initial number spat on cluster (<25mm) |
| ratio |
| Unit | dimensionless |
| Type | natural |
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| Final weight (g) |
| Final mass of recovered cluster (NR indicates the cluster was not recovered). Note that FL had only a very coarse spring scale for measuring final mass, so there may be rounding error. |
| ratio |
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| Final # live |
| Final number of live adult oysters in cluster (>25mm) |
| ratio |
| Unit | dimensionless |
| Type | natural |
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| Final # gapers |
| Final number of gaping adult oysters in cluster (>25mm) |
| ratio |
| Unit | dimensionless |
| Type | natural |
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| Final # spat |
| Final number spat on cluster (<25mm) |
| ratio |
| Unit | dimensionless |
| Type | natural |
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| Notes |
| Additional notes |
| nominal |
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