Energy Balance and Trophic Status in Fish
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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Editors Choice | No |
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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 |
| Release Flag | Published |
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