Dry season = 1.50E-05 animal/m2
Wet season = 1.00E-06 animal/m2
the number is based on the other component's biomasses, general
knowledge of the area and expert estimation (Dalrymple, G., pers. com.)
*For the wet season half
of the number of the dry season was used, assuming that the area in which
this animal feeds and lives is less.*
Biomass per animal = 17 g (wet weight)
dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35
gramms of carbon/gramms
of dry weight = 0.45
Basal metabolism = 0.061264 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.122529 Kcal/gww*day
Mean food caloric content = 5.3 Kcal/g of dry weight
Mean food Carbon content = 45% of dry weight
Odum, E.P., C.E. Connell and L. B.
Davenport, 1962; McNab B.K.,
1980; Jorgensen, S.E., et al., 1991.
P/B Production/Biomass ratio (P/B) = 4.42 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.20
Shrews eat: Terrestrial Invertebrates and Mice & Rats.
Lomolino,
M.V., 1984; Peterson, R.T., 1991; Rare
and endengered biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978.
