In ecology, energy flow, also called the calorific flow, refers to the flow of energythrough afood chain. In an ecosystem, ecologistsseek to quantify the relative importance of different component species and feeding relationships.
A general energy flow scenario follows:
The energy is passed on from trophic level to trophic level and each time about 90% of the energy is lost, with some being lost as heat into the environment (an effect of respiration) and some being lost as incompletely digested food (egesta). Therefore, primary consumers get about 10% of the energy produced by autotrophs, while secondary consumers get 1% and tertiary consumers get 0.1%. This means the top consumer of a food chainreceives the least energy, as a lot of the food chain's energy has been lost between trophic levels. This loss of energy at each level limits typical food chains to only four to six links.
[edit]how do organisms utilize the stored energy from green plants
The energy stored in plants is classified as potential energy because they convert light energy into chemical potential energy stored in glucose.
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starches are produced by all green plants as the energy is stored
No animals, only green plants and algae.
The Light energy is transformed into chemical energy which gets stored in the chemical bonds of energy rich compound glucose that is formed as a result of photosynthesis
some animals eat the green plants. The plants feed the animal, and the animal fertilizes the field with its droppings.