The phrase "assimilation efficiency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, ecology, or any field discussing the effectiveness of assimilation processes, such as nutrient uptake or information processing.
Example: "The study measured the assimilation efficiency of different plant species in varying soil conditions."
Alternatives: "absorption efficiency" or "integration efficiency".
The efficiency by which animals convert the food they ingest into energy for growth and reproduction is called assimilation efficiency.
Ingestion rate, gravimetric absorption, and assimilation efficiency were generally significantly affected by both temperature and diet.
The assimilation efficiency of fauna may reach 50% but is usually much smaller.
Ingestion rate, gravimetric absorption, and assimilation efficiency of urchins fed the various diets were calculated at weeks 6 and 12.
However, further improvement is still awaited for carbon assimilation efficiency, resistance to various abiotic and biotic stresses, seed yield, oil content and composition.
This study was designed to experimentally measure the assimilation efficiency of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in a warm-water, benthic-feeding fish species, the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus).
Carnivores generally have higher assimilation efficiencies than herbivores, often between 60 and 90 percent, because their food is more easily digested.
For example, herbivores that eat seeds and young vegetation high in energy have the highest assimilation efficiencies, those that eat older leaves have intermediate efficiencies, and those that feed on decaying wood have very low efficiencies.
Laboratory procedures have been designed to evaluate the clearance rates (CR) and assimilation efficiencies (AE) of M. galloprovincialis with varying food concentrations, while different diets (i.e., seagrass, phytoplankton, and pellets) have been provided to investigate how differently they reach saturation.
Urchins fed on an algal diet showed poorer absorption efficiency, assimilation, gonadal and somatic growth than individuals fed on an artificial sea urchin diet (mixed plant and animal material) or on the animal based diets.
Xu, G., Fan, X. & Miller, A. J. Plant Nitrogen Assimilation and Use Efficiency.
