Question

In an experiment carried out to study the energy flow through an ecosystem, scientists measured the total solar energy captured by plants to be 10,000 kilocalories. The portion of this available to the next trophic level will be ___.

Answer 1

1,000 kilocalories of energy available to the next trophic level.

What Is The 10 Rule What Is Its Significance Why Is Energy Lost?

The 10 percent rule states that only ten percent of the energy in an ecosystem will be transferred from one trophic level to the next. An energy pyramid provides a graphic representation of energy loss at each level of the feeding stages of species in an ecosystem.

So, energy captured in the next trophic level = 10,000 kilocalories of 10%

                                                                           = 1,000 kilocalories

Energy is lost as metabolic heat when animals from one trophic level are ingested by species from the next level, hence energy diminishes as it goes up the food chain. Energy transmission between trophic levels is quantified by trophic level transfer efficiency (TLTE).

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