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The Estimation of Productivity and the Construction of Energy Budgets

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The size of a population and the interactions between populations within an ecosystem may be expressed in terms of biomass (weight of living material) or energy content, as well as in numbers. Biomass and energy are useful to ecologists in that they provide a common unit for the description of populations of animals and plants of different sizes. Descriptions of the predator in these terms are often essential in studies on the effect of insect predators of varying ages on a prey population (Szalay-Marzsó, 1958), and the prey consumed by general predators, e.g. insectivorous birds, is best expressed as biomass or calories. Conversely if the energy requirements are known from metabolic measurements, they may be used to predict the food requirements in the field (Pearson, 1954; Stiven, 1961), although the quality of the food in terms of specific amino-acids, vitamins and other constituents will also be important (Boyd & Goodyear, 1971; Iversen, 1974; Schroeder, 1977; Onuf et al., 1977; McNeill & Southwood, 1978).

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