Biomass per turtle = 731 g (wet weight)

          Number of turtle per m2 = 0.0006 in/m2

          Biomass = 0.4383gww/m2

          dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.30

          gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45

          Biomass = 0.4383 g(ww)/m2 = 0.0592 gC/m2

    Expert estimete (Dr. G.H. Dalrymple); Jorgensen, S.E., et al., 1991.



          Metabolic rate: 0.026 ccO2/g per hour

          Basal methabolism = 0.113 gC/gww/y = 0.050 gC/m2 y

          Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2

          Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.099 gC/m2 y

    Pandian,T.J., and F.J. Vernberg, 1987.





          Production/Biomass ratio (P/B) = 5

          Production = 0.2959 gC/m2 y

    Pandian,T.J., and F.J. Vernberg, 1987; Smith, G.C., 1976.



          Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.30

          Consumption = 0.5642 gC/m2 y

          Excretion = 0.1693 gC/m2 y

    Bjordal, K.A., 1985; Bjordal, K.A., 1986.



    This compartment consumes the following: Floating vegetation, periphyton, macrophytes, crayfish, apple snails, freshwater prawns, aquatic invertebrates, terrestrial invertebrates, small herbivorous and omnivorous fish, large fish, alligators, snakes, salamanders, medium frogs, small frogs, galliformes, tadpoles, shrews, and mice & rats.

     Peterson, R.T., 1991; Porter, K.R., 1972; Expert estimate (Dr. G.H. Dalrymple).