"Meiosis II is not completed until after the egg cell makes contact with the sperm cell." This is false because, for both genders, meiosis splits into haploid cells. The end of Meiosis II would be when the four haploid cells are separated.
The disadvantages of the pyramid of productivity as a representation: The rate of biomass production of an organism is required, which involves measuring growth and reproduction through time. There is still the difficulty of assigning the organisms to a specific trophic level.