Dry season = 1.00E-05 animal/m2
Wet season = 1.00E-05 animal/m2
Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress
Jetport (1969) and expert estimation (Dalrymple,
G., pers. com.).
Biomass per animal = 743 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 = 0.0235 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.07062 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) = 1.25 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.35
Squirrels eat: Understory, Vines, Hardwood Leaves and Cypress Leaves.
Humphrey,
S. R. and P.G.R. Jodice, (in press); Peterson,
R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered biota of Florida.
Mammals.,1978.
