Invertebrate Food Selection

 

Catherine A. Teare Ketter and Jill M. Goldstein

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2003, Volume 24

Abstract

This laboratory exercise was developed for a one-semester course geared for the nonscience student. The course, MARS 1020, is one option for students to choose when fulfilling a life science requirement in their core curriculum. Students work in groups of two to four, depending upon class size, to observe various feeding strategies employed by marine invertebrates. The feeding experiments are designed to assist the students in making conclusions about how organisms find food in different marine environments. A concerted effort is made to relate the feeding strategy to the physical environment in which the organism is found.

Keywords:  foraging activity, feeding behavior, invertebrate

Louisiana State University (2002)