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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F16%3A72827" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/16:72827 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EG - Zoologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

ISSN

0307-6946

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

41

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

4

Strana od-do

741-744

Kód UT WoS článku

000388585300013

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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