Environmental, agricultural, and natural ecosystems.
Carbon is found in the non-living part of the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and Geo-sphere, as carbonate (CaCO3) rocks and dead organic matter, such as humus in soil.
It flows through the consumers (first level second level so forth). However, at each level, it loses 90 percent of the energy as heat. So at each level, each consumer will only get 10 percent of the energy.