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How do you calculate how much energy is transferred from one trophies level to the next

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The amount of energy at eachtrophic level decreases as it moves through an ecosystem. As little as 10 percent of the energy at any trophic level istransferred to the next level; the rest is lost largely through metabolic processes as heat
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