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If you are on the fourth trophic evel, what percentage of energy are you setting from theproducers?

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By general rule, we have that on each trophic level only 10% of the energy passes to the next level, so if producers generate a 1 000 000kcal the primary consumers only will get 100 000kcal, and so on so we can solve it in the following way:

First level --> FProducers: 1 000 000kcal

Second level --> primary consumer: 100 000kcal

Third level --> secondary consumer: 10 000kcal

Fourth level --> Tertiary consumer: 1000kcal

So now we can estimate what percentage our 1000kacl represents of the producers 1 000 000kcal

1 000 000 100%

1 000 x

x= (1000x100)/1 000 000 = 0.1%

Therefore we can say that at the fourth trophic level only 0.1% of the producers energy arrives.

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