Pandian T J, Delvi M R
Department of Zoology, Madurai University, P.G. Centre, Sri Palaniandavar Arts College, Palni, Tamilnadu.
Oecologia. 1973 Dec;13(4):397-401. doi: 10.1007/BF01825528.
The termsenergy extraction efficiency andabsorption/assimilation efficiency are defined. The grasshopperPoecilocerus pictus extracts 15 or 27% energy contained in the food plantCalotropis gigantea, when the test animals were fed from hatching to death at 26 or 36°C. The energy extraction efficiency of some insects (Bombyx andHyalophora: terrestrial herbovores;Pyrrhosoma: aquatic carnivore) is about 7%, though their assimilation efficiency ranges from 42 to 97%. High ash content of food organisms deviates the energy extraction efficiency inPyrrhosoma and the aquatic dipteran herbivoreHedriodiscus.
定义了能量提取效率和吸收/同化效率这两个术语。当在26或36°C条件下从孵化到死亡持续投喂受试动物时，蝗虫细纹稻蝗从食物植物牛角瓜中提取的能量为15%或27%。一些昆虫（家蚕和樗蚕：陆生食草动物；红腹灰蜻：水生食肉动物）的能量提取效率约为7%，尽管它们的同化效率在42%至97%之间。食物生物体的高灰分含量会使红腹灰蜻和水生双翅目食草动物赫氏水虻的能量提取效率产生偏差。
