Trophic Level
A trophic level consists of organisms that get their energy from a similar source. Each step in a food chain is a trophic level. A food chain is a series of organisms each eating or deco...
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Ten Percent Law
The so-called "ten percent law," also often called the "law of tens" refers to the idea that at each transfer of energy through a trophic structure, only a small percent of the energy ...
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Trophic Level
One important concept in the study of ecosystems is their trophic structure, which identifies the organization of the ecosystem by grouping its organisms according to where they get thei...
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Trophic Structure
The trophic structure (from Greek trophos = feeder) of an ecosystem is the arrangement of organisms based on their feeding relationships. All organisms interact with each other throu...
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Trophic Level
One way of analyzing the biological relationships within an ecosystem is to describe who eats whom within the system, also called a functional analysis. Each feeding level in an ecosys...
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Trophic Level
Ten Percent Law
Trophic Level