Question

Explain how trees can be producers and yet the smallest trophic level in a pyramid of numbers.

Answer 1

Answer:

The trees are large as compared to the organism that lives on it, like insects, rodents, birds. A tree has much more biomass as compared to the consumers that depend upon it. It means that it is still at the base of the biomass of the pyramid and pyramid of energy.

The number of the organism in the lower level of the pyramid of a number will be less, but when we consider the pyramid of biomass it will be larger and found at the bottom.

Answer 2

Oh ok, because producers make up the largest amount of biomass in most food chains, so they put it in the bottom of the pyramid, because the base of the pyramid is the largest part of it.