Energy budgets do balance-A comment on a paper by Wightman and Rogers

Göran I Ågren; Björn Axelsson

doi:10.1007/BF00346600

Energy budgets do balance-A comment on a paper by Wightman and Rogers

Oecologia. 1979 Oct;42(3):375-376. doi: 10.1007/BF00346600.

Authors

Göran I Ågren¹, Björn Axelsson¹

Affiliation

¹ Swedish Coniferous Forest Project The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Fack, S-750 07, Uppsala 7, Sweden.

PMID: 28309509
DOI: 10.1007/BF00346600

Abstract

In a recently published energy budget for the larvae of the leafcutter bee (Wightman and Rogers, Oecologia (Berl.) 36 (1978) 245-257) respiration as estimated by respirometry amounted to only 67% of the respiration as estimated from the difference between assimilation and production. In this note it is shown that this discrepancy seems to result from an incorrect value of the oxycalorific equivalent and that a more reasonable value makes the two estimates of respiration agree.