Trophic Levels
07/12/26
“How can we define an organism’s food chain position based on its energy level?”
Organisms at the bottom of food chains use primary production to gain biomass, while those higher up use secondary production. The higher up the food chain you go, the lower the energy potential there is. Ecologists have termed the food chain level an organism is at by their potential energy as their Trophic Levels.
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