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Approximately how much of the energy in the producers of an ecosystem will be available to secondary consumers?

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Secondary consumers receive 10% of the energy available at the primary consumer level (1% of the original energy). Tertiary consumers receive 10% of the energy available at the secondary level (0.1% of the original energy).

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