Head width-body mass equation: facilitating worker termite biomass estimates

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12349" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12349</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12349" target="_blank" >10.1111/een.12349</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Head width-body mass equation: facilitating worker termite biomass estimates
Original language description
Termites are one of the most important invertebrate ecosystem engineers in tropical regions, which may be quantified using termite biomass data. However, biomass data are particularly difficult to collect as they rely on termites being weighed in the field, which may neither be possible nor convenient. Local scale linear regression models, based on termite head widths (mm) and body masses (mg), have been used in the past to estimate termite biomass using head width and abundance data. However, these models represent very limited numbers of termite taxa from single sites. In the present study, I provide one of the most representative linear regression models available based on 90 samples from three different countries (Peru, Kenya, and Malaysia). Although the linear regression model under-or overestimated body weights of taxa with characteristic features (e.g. large heads of Odontotermes workers or elongated abdomens of Kalotermitidae) it provides a robust method for estimating termite biomass at the
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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