What is the ten percent rule in ecology?

Answer 1

It states that energy, when passing from prey to predator, is only conserved at about 10%. for example, when deer eat the grass, only 10% of the energy that the grass received from the sun is passed onto the deer.

Answer 2

Every time something is eaten, only ten percent of the energy make it to the consumer. For example, a plant uses photosynthesis and would be able to use 10% of the energy. Then a cow eats the plant and gets 10% of the plants energy, which is 1% of the original suns energy. Next a person eats the cow and only gets .1% of the original energy from the sun.

Answer 3

Only 10% of the energy stored at one trophic level istransferredto the next.

Answer 4

its a rule in sequence of the living organisms in a certain species

Answer 5

As you move up the food chain the energy level goes down. When an organism eats another organism it loses 10% of the energy that was in the previous organism..

Answer 6

Only 10% of energy is stored when an organism from one level of the Pyramid of Energy is eaten by an organism from one level above. The rest of the energy is used or lost.