Dry season = 1.00E-06 animal/m2
Wet season = 1.00E-07 animal/m2
(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 = 5600 g (wet weight)
dry weight/wet weight ratio (dw/ww) = 0.35
gramms of carbon/gramms of dry weight = 0.45
Basal metabolism = 0.01438 Kcal/gww per day
Free living metabolism = basal metabolism x 2
Free living metabolism = Respiration = 0.02876 Kcal/gww*day
Mean food caloric content = 5.3 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) = 0.653 yearly rate
Banse, K. and S. Mosher, 1980.
Excretion/Consumption ratio (E/C) = 0.20
Jorgensen, S.E., et al., 1991.
For the specific values for this compartment, refer to the values presented
in tabular format in the metabolic parameter
and input and output pages.
| Understory |
| Hardwood Leaves |
| Terrestrial Invertebrates |
| Galliformes |
| Egrets |
| Other Herons |
| Woodstorks |
| Ibis |
