Using Life History Data to Examine Trade-Offs in Body Size and Reproductive Ability
| Autor: | Matthew J. Heard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Data collection Ecology (disciplines) Trade offs Body size 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Education Natural history 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Mathematics education Statistical analysis Life history General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The American Biology Teacher. 80:53-55 |
| ISSN: | 1938-4211 0002-7685 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/abt.2018.80.1.53 |
| Popis: | Life history trade-offs provide an opportunity for students to learn about concepts in ecology, evolutionary biology, and natural history. Here I present a simple activity that I created to help students use data from museums and online life history databases to explore the relationship between body size and reproductive ability in birds. This activity, which guides students in hypothesis development and testing, data collection, and statistical analysis, is applicable to students at the high school and undergraduate levels. In addition, although I focused on birds, this activity can also be applied to other taxa where life history data are available. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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