Dry season = 6.51E-08 animal/m2
Wet season = 3.26E-08 animal/m2
Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress
Jetport, (1969).
*Half of the amount found
in the reference above was used assuming that the cypress domes and strands
are less used by this animal. Again, for the wet season used half the number
for the dry season was used, assuming that the area in which this animal feeds
and lives is less.*
Biomass per animal = 20250 g (wet weight)
dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35
gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45
Basal metabolism = 0.010428 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.020857 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) = 0.427 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.35
Hogs consume: macrophytes, understory, terrestrial invertebrates, anseriformes,
galliformes, and ibis.
Peterson,
R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered
biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978.
