Biomass per snake = 291 g (wet weight)

Number of snakes per m2 = 0.0015 in/m²

Biomass = 0.4365 gww/m²

dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.25

gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45

Biomass = 0.4365 g(ww)/m² = 0.049 gC/m²

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

Y = -51.72 + 21.34ln X

X= biomass per snake = 291 g (wet weight)

Y= Kcal Food per week = 69

Kcal Food per year per g (wet weight) = 12.4

Smith, G.C, 1976.

Mean food caloric content = 5.5 Kcal/g of dry weight

g of food per g(ww) per year = 2.248

Jorgensen, S.E., et al., 1991.

Metabolic rate: 0.0325 ccO₂/g per hour

Basal methabolism = 0.1408 gC/gww/y = 0.0614 gC/m² y

Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2

Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.1229 gC/m² y

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

Snakes feed on: Crayfish, Apple Snails, Freshwater Prawn, Terrestrial Invertebrates, Aquatic Invertebrates, Small Herbivorous and Omnivorous Fish, Small Predatory Fish, Large Fish, Alligators, Lizards, Salamanders, Large Frogs, Medium Frogs, Small Frogs, Salamader Larvae, Galliformes, Egrets, Other Herons, Ibis, Woodpeckers, Omnivorous Passeriformes, Predatory Passeriformes, Shrews and Mice & Rats.

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