Dry season = 2.60E-06 animal/m2
Wet season = 2.00E-07 animal/m2
Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress
Jetport, Spt. 1969, general knoledges of the area and expert estimation
(Dalrymple, G., pers. com.).
Biomass per animal = 10600 g (wet weight)
dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35
gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45
Basal metabolism = 0.01226 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.02452 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) = 0.529 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.35
Racoons consume the following: Understory, Hardwood Leaves, Crayfish,
Apple Snail, Freshwater Prawn, Aquatic Invertebrates, Terrestrial Invertebrates,
Small Herbivorous and Omnivorous Fish, Small Predatroy Fish, Large Fish, Medium
Frogs, Large Frogs, Galliformes, Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Other Herons,
Woodstorks, Ibis, Gruiformes, Omnivorous Passerines, Predatory Passerines.
Peterson,
R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered
biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978.
