Dry season = 2.00E-05 animal/m2
Wet season = 1.00E-05 animal/m2
Gaines, M.S., J.E.Diffendorfer and
L.Lind, (in press); Sowder,
A. and S. Woodall, 1985; Tilmant, J.T, 1975
and expert estimation (Dalrymple, G., pers. com.)
Biomass per animal = 85 g (wet weight)
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 = 0.040976 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.08195 Kcal/gww*day
Mean food caloric content = 4.5 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) = 2.6 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Excretion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.35
Mice and Rats feed on: Understory, Hardwood Leaves, Terrestrial
Invertebrates, Omnivorous Passerines, and Predatory Passerines.
Peterson,
R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered
biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978.
