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28 September, 02:49

The plants in a red-tailed hawk's food chain produce 3 million kcal of chemical energy per day. How much energy is available to the hawk's trophic level, assuming 90% loss at each level?

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  1. 28 September, 05:34
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    The amount of total energy at each trophic level decreases as it moves through, so 90% is lost at each level. This means that only 10 percent of the energy at any trophic level is transferred to the next level; and the rest is lost as heat.

    In this case, if a plant ecosystem has 3000000 kilocalories (kcal) of energy, about 300000 kcal will be transferred to primary consumers (for example grass hoppers). If the red-tailed hawks are tertiary consumers, they will get 3000 kcal of energy.
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