Explanation: The top predators are the least numerous organisms to maintain the population of the other organisms. If the top predators were the most numerous than the species in the forest would go extinct because they would eat all of the organisms lower on the food chain and would therefore starve to death. The top predators maintain the population of the forest by eating the lower organisms so that the amount of plant life will not go extinct.
It follows that the carnivores (secondary consumers) that feed on herbivores and detritivores and those that eat other carnivores (tertiary consumers) have the lowest amount of energy available to them.
