I am looking for studies which estimate the total biomass of insects in kg/area depending on habitat types.
It would also be important to know, which proportion of these enter the air.
Thank you very much for your help.
Hi Gunnar,
Interesting yet difficult questions :) Concerning the first one, I think this paper may be interesting :
Hodar, J.A.1996.The use of regression equations for estimation of arthropod biomass in ecological studies
http://ecologia.ugr.es/pages/publicaciones/publicaciones-pdfs/1996/p3s5ieactaoeco1996/!
But sadly I have nothing in my references to help and answer your second question.
Dear Gunnar,
Please check the attached link and pdf. May it be some help for you.
Best,
Tharindu
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112708004994
Hello! I believe, this kind of data could be estimated from papers reporting the impact of bats and birds predation on insect biomass. As an example...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/11-1118.1/abstract
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1656/045.021.0106
Although how to establish comparisons between habitat types could be much more challeging (structures etc...)
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