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Is energy lost in a ecosystem as it moves from producers to consumers

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Energy decreases as it moves up trophic levels because energy is lost as metabolic heat when the organisms from one tropic level are consumed by organisms from the next level. Trophic level transfer efficiency measures the amount of energy that is transferred between trophic levels

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