Materials and Methods

The materials and methods section is a section in the scientific article containing the experimental design of the study. If there are major flaws in the research methodology, the reader will question the validity of the whole study.

Materials and Methods

• Materials
  • Penaed prawn
    • carapace length
    • wet weight
    • Fulton's condition factor
• Study Site
  • Bay of Santa Pola(Alicante,SE Spain)
• Methods
  • Feeding Trial in Captivity
    • trophic discrimination
      • 2.25‰ N-15 0.25‰ C-13
      • empirical value
        • derived from the feeding trial in captivity
  • Stable Isotope Analysis
    • lipid normalization equation
      • enriched
      • depleted
  • Statistical Analysis
    • multiple regression
      • predictor
        • distance to the fish farm
          • carapace length
      • dependent variable
        • prawn body size
          • feeding duration on fish pellets
• Regression on replicated date
  • pure error variance