You are a game warden studying elephant ecology in a Ugandan

You are a game warden studying elephant ecology in a Ugandan National Park. As part of your project you have collected the following data: What is the exploitation efficiency

Solution

Explotation efficiency = amount of food ingested / amount of prey production

= 71.5 / 40.2

= 1.778 = 17.78%

Asimilation efficiency = amount of assimilation / amount of food ingested

= 31.0 / 71.5

= 0.4335 = 43.35%