A trade-off) is a situational determination that includes reducing or dropping a degree, amount or resources of a set in return for accumulations in other perspectives.
People in the Amazon performs the task of logging that is the cutting of the trees and storing the wood onto cars or wagons for the purpose of cleaning the forests for agricultural production to meet the demand of people for food. However, this activity of people in Amazon has caused a major problem of deforestation. Thus, the reduction in biodiversity is a trade-off between protection and economic expansion.
Energy decreases as it moves up trophic levels because energy is lost as metabolic heat when the organisms from one trophic level are consumed by organisms from the next level. Trophic level transfer efficiency (TLTE) measures the amount of energy that is transferred between trophic levels.