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Bioenergetics team completes field collection; preliminary biomass maps show vegetation and invertebrate pulses
Summary
A multi‑year bioenergetics study reported completion of three years of field sampling across 240 sites; preliminary results show major contributions from ostracods, daphnia and copepods and suggest water delivery timing strongly affects biomass availability for waterfowl.
Lauren (PhD candidate) presented the bioenergetics project’s quarterly update: three years of field sampling are complete for 240 sites across six wetland systems, with samples taken in April, August and November. The study converts biomass measures (macroinvertebrates, submerged aquatic vegetation, seeds) into caloric supply estimates paired with species‑specific demand to estimate metrics such as "duck‑use‑days."
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