For example, it is possible to check if two yeast strains were grown under the same experimentalconditions (temperature, medium, etc.), and if the same methods were used to calculate growth parameters, etc.
Readers of a paper (including the peer reviewers) have to trust that the researchers correctly converted raw data and experimentalconditions to abbreviated formats.
The researchers will monitor the growth of this vegetation around newly formed thermokarst features and use experimental field plots to test how conditions mimicking such features affect which species will thrive.