Dry season = 1.00E-05 animal/m2
Wet season = 1.00E-06 animal/m2
Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress Jetport, 1969,
general knoledges of the area and expert estimation (Dalrymple, G., pers.
com.)
*For the wet season I
used half of the number I have for the dry, because I assumed that the area
in which this animal feeds and lives is less.*
Biomass per animal = 1350 g (wet weight)
dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35
gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45
Basal metabolism = 0.0205 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.041046 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) = 1.04 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Egestion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.35
Rabbits eat: Understory and Hardwood Leaves.
Peterson,
R.T., 1991; Rare and endengered
biota of Florida. Mammals.,1978.
