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The average amount is around 10% .

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Q: What is a good average value for the amount of organic matter that reaches the next trophic level?
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Was is the total amount of organic matter within a trophic level is called?

Biomass is the total amount of organic matter present in any trophic level.


What the total amount of organic matter present in any trophic level?

Biomass pyramid


What represents the amount of living organic matter at each trophic level?

the stratobian uletospheric calender scale in the graphic rock world of osponeratosin


What is trophic mass?

I would assume it to be the amount of mass in a specific trophic level. Thus, the trophic mass pyramid.


How changes to a lower trophic level affects high trophic levels?

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Of energy gained compare to the amount of energy lost as heat at the second through fourth trophic levels?

As you climb trophic levels the general amount of energy lost is 90% so you get about 1/10 of the energy that was consumed by the animal per trophic level.


Why can each trophic level support only about one tenth the amount of the living tissue of the level below?

This is because energy is lost at each trophic level. The energy available to the next trophic level is about 10% of the energy of the previous trophic level.


What the most energy efficient part of a trophic pyramid?

It is the part that has the least amount of energy in the trophic pyramid. An owl or skunk would be an example of this.


Why do different trophic level have different amount of energy?

Some energy transferred at each successive trophic level enters the environment as heat.


What is the total amount of living tissue within a trophic level?

BIOMASS


The number of trophic levels in an ecological pyramid?

The number is limited by the amount of energy lost at each trophic level. Most cannot exceed 5.


Why can each trophic level support only about one tenth the amount of living tissue of the level below?

This is because energy is lost at each trophic level (from all the activity done by that level, e.g., running, climbing, fighting) . The energy available to the next trophic level is about 10% of the energy of the previous trophic level.