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In this activity, students work with a dataset to investigate energy balance in animals that have different feeding behaviors (diurnal/nocturnal) and diets (e.g., carnivore/detritivore).
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Resource Group TIEE
Resource Group Link https://ecoed.esa.org/index.php?P=SearchResults&F46=TIEE
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Discipline Specific Core Concepts
Life science discipline (subject)
Keywords fish, feeding, predator, herbivore, trophic, statistics, behavior, energy, life history, trade-off, carnivore, detritivore, diurnal, nocturnal
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Pedagogical Use Description This is a good data set to use in a discussion of feeding "strategies," e.g., trade-offs for predators vs. herbivores. It is also useful for instruction about the use of Excel to make figures because the data set is not very large.

In regard to sampling and statistics, these data can also lead to discussion about means, standard deviation and standard error, and statistical differences. Despite the wide range in the data, piscivores were statistically different than the rest because of the large sample size. As a specific Excel skill, students could also learn how to sort with the unsorted data.
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Url http://tiee.esa.org/vol/v1/data_sets/fish/fish.html
Full Name of Primary Author Charlene D'Avanzo
Primary Author Controlled Name
Primary Author Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Hampshire College
Primary Author email cdavanzo@hampshire.edu
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Rights 2004 - Charlene D'Avanzo, and the Ecological Society of America
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Drought and Water Ecosystem Services Collection Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection Off
Big Data Collection Off
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Date Of Record Submission 1999-11-30
I Agree to EcoEdDL's Copyright Policy & Terms of Use No
Date Of Record Release 2010-02-16 01:37:04
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Date Last Modified 2018-07-18 10:58:35
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