Dry season = 8.00E-07 animal/m²

Wet season = 1.00E-08 animal/m²

The number is based on Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress Jetport, 1969; general knowledge of the area and expert estimation (Dalrymple, G., pers. com.).

Biomass per animal = 878 g (wet weight)

Smith, A.T. and D.M. Cary. 1982; Peterson, R.T., 1991.

dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35

gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45

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

Basal metabolism = 0.095 Kcal/gww per day

Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2

Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.19 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) = 1.30 yearly rate

Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.

Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.20

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

Minks feed on: crayfish, applesnails, freshwater prawns, aquatic invertebrates, terrestrial invertebrates, small herbivorous and omnivorous fish, and small predatory fish., Galliformes, egrets, other herons, woodstorks, ibis, mice & rats, and rabbits.

Peterson, R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978; Smith, A.T. 1980.