The amount of carbon dioxide exhaled by animals per unit of animal biomass over a given period of time.
Used to calculate:fossil fuels consumed, biomass fuels consumed and photosynthesis and respiration
Varies by: global
| Used | global | Reference | Location: Ecosystem (study period) |
Value | Units | Notes |
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| * | Global entity | West et al. 2009 - The human carbon budget: an estimate of the spatial distribution of metabolic carbon consumption and release in the United States | Global: All () | 0.720344 | kg CO2/kg biomass/year | This source reports mean CO2 released through human respiration at rest in kg / year. We used the average mass of a American (81.35 kg) to convert the value to kg CO2/kg biomass/year. |