Timeline for How much land area do my land-based animals (herbivores) need for food?
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| Jan 13, 2016 at 18:30 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | Note: some animals kill the plants they eat (see: cows and grass) while others do not (see: horses and grass). Also, +1 for the "you really can find anything" comment, because you really really can...if you know what to look for. I can tell you where to find a list of plants that are biological indicators for various underground metals, even if such information hasn't largely been relevant for a hundred years. I can also find an episode of Duck Tales where this was a plot important detail, strangely enough. | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 17:13 | comment | added | The Nate | Re this, to OP: The plant biomass of grass lands are (practically) all in the herbivore's easy to eat category, so estimates for them can be used straight for participation in the food chain. Percentages for other ecosystems would hang mostly on stalk to leaf ratio of the dominant trees. You're looking for rules of thumb, so I suggest you figure out a median tree and use it. (Or save yourself some thinking and declare your world has more cellulose eating creatures than ours and use the numbers straight.) | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 18:17 | history | answered | Frostfyre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |