Define 10 percent law?

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2023-01-14

Define 10 percent law?

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The pyramid of energy describes how energy moves from one trophic level to the next in a food chain.
The 10% law states that 90% of the energy that is gathered is wasted as heat in the previous level and just 10% is left for the following level.
About 10% of the energy is used for metabolic processes at each trophic level, with the remaining energy being lost as heat to the environment.
At each level, the chemical energy decreases but the overall system energy does not.

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