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Bioenergetics study completes three seasons of sampling; early data show key invertebrate biomass
Summary
Researchers reported completion of three years of field sampling for a Great Salt Lake waterbird bioenergetics model, processing more than 1,100 of 1,400 cores and finding ostracods, daphnia and copepods are major contributors to biomass; work will feed a predictive model of food supply and bird demand.
Lauren, a Ph.D. candidate presenting the waterbird bioenergetics project, told attendees the team has finished three years of field sampling across 240 sites and is processing biomass samples to translate food availability into species-specific caloric supply.
"We have finished with our full 3 years of data collection for all of our systems," Lauren said, describing the project’s scope: submerged aquatic vegetation,…
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