Question

Can anyone help?? The amount of available energy decreases with each step up the energy pyramid. How is this related to the fact that there are so many more producers than consumers on Earth?

please explain!

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Most of the food energy that enters a trophic level is "lost" as heat when it is used by organisms to power the normal activities of life. Thus, the higher the trophic level on the pyramid, the lower the amount of available energy.

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