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Giant clams as open-source, scalable reef environmental biomonitors
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Valvometry, the electronic measurement of bivalve shell opening and closing, has been demonstrated to be a valuable biomonitoring technique in previous ecological and environmental studies. Valvometric data has been shown to relate significantly to pollution, predation, animal stress and feeding...
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12,000-year-old spindle whorls and the innovation of wheeled rotational technologies
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‘The wheel and axle’ revolutionized human technological history by transforming linear to rotary motion and causing parts of devices to move. While its ancient origins are commonly associated with the appearance of carts during the Bronze Age, we focus on much earlier wheel-shaped find–an...
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Biosphere 2 Giant Clam Valvometry
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The included datasets relate to the PLoS One manuscript regarding a multi-month valvometric study of giant clams in the Biosphere 2 ocean. "raw valvometry data final.csv" is a large CSV with over 2.9 million rows used to inform all following analyses in the study. "daily data merged.csv"...
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