How is only 10% of energy is passed from a trophic level to the next trophic level?
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10 percent law:
10% Law was given by Raymond Lindemann.
In a food chain, along with food some amount of energy is also transferred.
This transfer of energy takes place through the various trophic level.
With each tropic level the amount of energy is reduced and only 10% of the energy gets transferred to a higher trophic level.
For example, if producers get 10,000J energy from the sun then primary consumers get 1000J, secondary consumers get 100J and tertiary consumers to get only 10J of energy.
