Dry season = 1.07E-06 animal/m2
Wet season = 5.33E-07 animal/m2
Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress
Jetport,1969; Smith,
T.R., O.L. Bass, S.M. Davis and J.C. Odgen, 1994.
*Half of the amount found
in the references was used assuming that the cypress domes and strands are
used less by this animal. Again, for the wet season half of the number for
the dry season was used, assuming that the area in which this animal feeds
and lives is less.*
Biomass per animal = 67500 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 = 0.007718 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.015436 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) = 0.287 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.35
Deer eat only: Macrophytes and Understory.
Peterson,
R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered
biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978.
