Table 1.

Sequence, timing, and duration of artificial tide conditions applied during each of four experiments designed to assess locomotor activity rhythms of L. polyphemus sourced from separate tide environments

Experiment	Stage of experiment
	1	2	3	4	5
1. Animals from regions with one dominant daily tide (GF; n = 7) and two daily tides (GM; n = 7)	No tides 12/3/2011–12/20/2011	12.4-h tidal cycle 12/21/2011–1/19/2012	24.8-h tidal cycle 1/10/2012–2/4/2012	No tides 2/5/2012–2/12/2012	NA
2 Animals from areas with one dominant daily tide (GF; n = 7) and two daily tides (MA; n = 7)	No tides 9/29/2012–10/15/2012	12.4-h tidal cycle 10/16/2012–11/4/2012	24.8-h tidal cycle 11/5/2012–11/24/2012	No tides 11/25/2012–12/2/2012	NA
3. Animals from areas with one dominant daily tide (GF; n = 7) and microtides (AF; n = 7)	No tides 4/3/2013–4/17/2013	12.4-h tidal cycle 4/18/2013–5/2/2013	No tides 5/3/2013–5/11/2013	24.8-h tidal cycle 5/12/2013–5/29/2013	No tides 5/30/2013–6/4/2013
4. Animals from areas with two daily tides (GM; n = 14)	No tides 6/13/2013–6/27/2013	24.8-h tidal cycle 6/28/2013–7/12/2013	No tides 7/13/2013–7/21/2013	12.4-h tidal cycle 7/22/2013–8/5/2013	No tides 8/6/2013–8/18/2013