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If the original amount of energy found in the producer trophic level is 100 kcal how much is passed on to the primary consumer trophic level? How does this amount limit the number if members is in the next higher level?

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10% less going up

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