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Energy budgets do balance—A comment on a paper by Wightman and Rogers

✍ Scribed by Göran I. Ågren; Björn Axelsson

Book ID: 104732642
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Weight: 124 KB
Volume: 42
Category: Article
ISSN: 0029-8549
DOI: 10.1007/bf00346600

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✦ Synopsis

In a recently published energy budget for the larvae of the leafcutter bee (Wightman and Rogers, Oecologia (Berl.) 36 (1978) 245-257) respiration as estimated by respirometry amounted to only 67% of the respiration as estimated from the difference between assimilation and production. In this note it is shown that this discrepancy seems to result from an incorrect value of the oxycalorific equivalent and that a more reasonable value makes the two estimates of respiration agree.

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