Table 3-1. Summary of methods used to estimate fresh mass for each prey group.
 Summary of Fresh Mass Estimation Methods
 Prey Group Type of Biomass Estimation
 Fish Allometric scaling, Hoyer and Canfield 1994
 Reptiles Field Data
 Amphibians Field Data
 Birds Field Data, Dunning 1993
 Mammals Field Data, museum specimens,
 Burt and Grossenheider 1980
 Gastropods Allometric scaling
 Bivalves Field Data
 Insects Direct Mass
 Crustaceans Direct Mass



 Table 3-2. Summary of samples among the lakes, including samples dropped, samples
 containing fresh prey, samples containing no food items, and showing the
 percentage of the samples containing fresh prey.
 Total # Samples Total Total Fresh Contained % Total Fresh
Lake Samples Dropped Diet Samples Diet Samples No Food Diet Samples
Griffin 102 17 85 63 2 74
Apopka 49 5 44 33 0 75
Woodruff 49 3 46 35 1 76
 200 25 175 131 3