Pandian, T. J. ; Delvi, M. R. (1973) Energy extraction efficiency in some chosen insects Oecologia, 13 (4). pp. 397-401. ISSN 0029-8549
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Abstract
The terms energy extraction efficiency and absorption/assimilation efficiency are defined. The grasshopper Poecilocerus pictus extracts 15 or 27% energy contained in the food plant Calotropis gigantea, when the test animals were fed from hatching to death at 26 or 36°C. The energy extraction efficiency of some insects (Bombyx and Hyalophora: 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 in Pyrrhosoma and the aquatic dipteran herbivore Hedriodiscus.
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