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Allisa [31]
3 years ago
7

Why are there limited levels of consumers? For example, apex predators are usually tertiary or quaternary consumers. Why don’t w

e have many 5th, 6th, or 7th level consumers?
Biology
1 answer:
yuradex [85]3 years ago
8 0

energy is lost at each level of consumption so it’s simply not efficient to be a 5th + level consumer

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