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Effects of elevated temperature on the performance and survival of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris)

Data was collected in order to establish the effects of elevated temperature on the performance and survival of crown-of-thorns starfish. The data consists of the following responses at different temperatures: righting time, average movement rate, standard metabolic rate, survival. The average movement rate was established using Adobe After Effects Software. Righting time, average movement rate and standard metabolic rate data was analysed in R studio using linear mixed effects models. Survival data was analysed using Kaplan Meier survival analysis and cox regression.

Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Software- Pyro Oxygen Logger version 2

Equipment- Firesting oxygen probes, Pyroscience, Aachen, Germany

Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: Software- R Studio version 3.6.3 os darwin15.6.0 Adobe After Effects
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    Data Publication title Effects of elevated temperature on the performance and survival of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris)
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    Data was collected in order to establish the effects of elevated temperature on the performance and survival of crown-of-thorns starfish. The data consists of the following responses at different temperatures: righting time, average movement rate, standard metabolic rate, survival. The average movement rate was established using Adobe After Effects Software. Righting time, average movement rate and standard metabolic rate data was analysed in R studio using linear mixed effects models. Survival data was analysed using Kaplan Meier survival analysis and cox regression.

    Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Software- Pyro Oxygen Logger version 2

    Equipment- Firesting oxygen probes, Pyroscience, Aachen, Germany

    Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: Software- R Studio version 3.6.3 os darwin15.6.0 Adobe After Effects

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  • Keywords
    • climate change
    • behaviour
    • physiology
    • coral reefs
    • crown-of-thorns starfish
    • temperature
    • echinoderms
    • ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
  • Funding source
    • Australian Research Council
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    • - Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
    • Research themes
    Tropical Ecosystems, Conservation and Climate Change
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  • Start Date 2020/02/24
  • End Date 2021/07/31
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  • Locations
    • Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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    Attachment Righting.csv The effect of temperature treatment (C) and temperature (D) on righting time in secs (I) in crown-of-thorns starfish. Week (A), starfish ID (B) and starfish weight in g (F) is also provided.
    Attachment Movement.csv The effect of temperature treatment (C) and temperature (G) on movement rate cm min-1 (L) in crown-of-thorns starfish. Week (A), starfish ID (B) and starfish weight in g (I) is also provided.
    Attachment Survivalprob_kmlr.csv Dataset for 'survival probability' used for KM/Log-rank statistics
    Attachment Survivalprob_cox.csv Dataset used for survival probability cox regression statistics
    Attachment SMR.csv The effect of temperature treatment (B) on weight-specific mg O2 g-1 hr-1 (I) and organism specific mg O2 hr-1 (G) standard metabolic rate in crown-of-thorns starfish. Starfish ID (C) and starfish weight in g (E) is also provided, as well as the run (A). Run 1 is the same week (SW) run and run 2 is the consecutive weeks (CW) run from the paper.
    Attachment SMRrun2ctl.csv The 26C control data for run 2/consecutive weeks (CW) run. Week (A), crown-of-thorns starfish ID (C), weight in grams (E) and weight specific (G) in mg O2 g-1 hr-1 and organism specific (F) mg O2 hr-1 standard metabolic rate is provided.
    Attachment Lang et al. Mar Biol code.Rmd Code for statistics and graphs for paper "Effects of elevated temperature on the performance and survival of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris)". Linear mixed effects models using the lme4 and nlme packages was used to establish the effect of temperature/treatment on righting, movement and standard metabolic rate. Log-rank tests and cox regression using the survival package was used to establish survival in the four treatments. This package was also used to create a Kaplan-meier survival plot and ggplot2 was used to create graphs for the other three responses. Linear ordinary least squares regression analyses using the stats package was used to establish the scaling exponent for the relationship between weight and the responses.
    The Data Manager is: Morgan Pratchett
    College or Centre ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
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    Citation Lang, Bethan; Donelson, Jennifer; Caballes, Ciemon; Uthicke, Sven; Doll, Peter; Pratchett, Morgan (2022): Effects of elevated temperature on the performance and survival of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris). James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/y8zk-7483