Dry season = 1.00E-08 animal/m2
Wet season = 1.00E-08 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 for the dry season was used, assuming that the area in which
this animal feeds and lives is less.*
Biomass per animal = 8 g (wet weight)
dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35
gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45
Metabolized energy = 1.64 kJ/gww per day
Food, energy content = 20.9 kJ/g (dry weight)
Excretion/Consimption ratio (E/C) = 0.20
Food, mainly inverts = 43.6 kJ per gram of Carbon
Food, Carbon content = 0.4794 gC per gram (dry weight)
Metabolized energy = 0.0376 gC/gww per day
Aldridge, H.D.J. and R.M. Brigham.
1991; Jorgensen, S.E., et
al., 1991.
P/B Production/Biomass ratio (P/B) = 5.67 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
For the specific values
for this compartment, refer to the values presented in tabular format in the
metabolic parameter and input
and output pages.
Bats feed exclusively on the Terrestrial
Invertebrates.
