Energy Balance and Trophic Status in Fish

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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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Primary or BEN resource type	Dataset
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Ecological Core Concept	The science of ecology -- Statistical analysis The science of ecology Interspecific interactions -- Predation and herbivory Interspecific interactions Individuals -- Behavior Individuals
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
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.
Keywords	fish, feeding, predator, herbivore, trophic, statistics, behavior, energy, life history, trade-off, carnivore, detritivore, diurnal, nocturnal
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Charlene D'Avanzo
Primary Author Affiliation	School of Natural Sciences, Hampshire College
Primary Author email	cdavanzo@hampshire.edu
Rights	2004 - Charlene D'Avanzo, and the Ecological Society of America
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	1999-11-30

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