Methodology: observation_field

ID: 19

Description:

Direct observation in the field

Used for traits:

• Colony bleached
• Colony part
• Habitat type
• Health status of the reef
• Turbidity
• Year
• Depth lower
• Depth upper
• Depth zone
• Feeding mechanism
• Light zone
• Type locality depth
• Water clarity preference
• Climate zone
• Marine province
• Marine realm
• Ocean basin
• Branching architecture
• Colony height
• Colony width
• Growth form
• Growth form (basic octocorallia)
• Growth form (detailed octocorallia)
• Polyp dimorphism
• Polyp height
• Polyp retractability
• Rachis length
• Symmetry of rachis
• Trunk diameter
• Type of growth
• Colony age
• Longevity
• Asexual reproduction mode
• Mode of larval development
• Reproductive period
• Sexual system
• Spawning date

Added by: Joshua Madin

Observations using this methodology

Diodogorgia nodulifera

• 240750

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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• 240751

  Marine realm

  Tropical Atlantic (cat)

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• 240752

  Marine province

  Tropical Northwestern Atlantic (cat)

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• 237690

  Ocean basin

  Atlantic (cat)

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• 249955

  5 trait measurements

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Discophyton rudyi

• 231166

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 206373

  Mode of larval development

  brooder (cat)

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• 206370

  Sexual system

  gonochoric with rare hermaphroditic colonies (cat)

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• 207484

  Asexual reproduction mode

  colony fission (cat)

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Distichoptilum gracile

• 252036

  Climate zone

  temperate (cat)

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• 252037

  Marine province

  Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic (cat)

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• 256964

  4 trait measurements

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• 256965

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 256969

  2 trait measurements

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• 256963

  4 trait measurements

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• 256966

  Climate zone

  temperate (cat)

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• 252034

  Ocean basin

  Atlantic (cat)

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• 256970

  Symmetry of rachis

  bilateral (cat)

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• 256967

  Marine realm

  Temperate South America (cat)

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• 256975

  Habitat type

  Soft bottom (cat)

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• 256968

  Marine province

  Magellanic (cat)

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• 239496

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 241066

  2 trait measurements

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• 239484

  Ocean basin

  Atlantic (cat)

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• 252035

  Marine realm

  Temperate Northern Atlantic (cat)

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