Ontogenetic Allometry of Deposit Feeders
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This proposal plans to integrate two avenues of research                that bear on our understanding of deposit - feeders, namely the                 clarification of the sedimentary food sources used by deposit                   feeders, and the development of the theoretical underpinning                    for explaining their foraging behavior.  The specific                           objectives include: 1) clarifying the relationship of                           absorption rates of sedimentary organic matter and several of                   its important components, including microbes, microbal mucus,                   and adsorbed small molecules, in terms of feeding rates, gut                    turnover times, and absorption time constants; 2) determining                   the effects of body size and body shape on specific absorption                  rates and specific metabolic rates; and 3) determining the                      combined effects of intrinsic (size and shape related) and                      extrinsic (size related feeding position in the sediment)                       factors on the net energy gain during the developmental history                 of a head-down deposit feeder.  The most significant aspect of                  the proposed research is that is integrates aspects of two                      exciting, but disparate, avenues of benthic research, one on                    the geochemical control of food availability, the other on an                   understanding of foraging behavior.
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{'Code': '1650', 'Text': 'BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY'}
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