plants and algae
The organism resides at the primary consumer trophic level.
When an organism from a higher trophic level eats one from a lower trophic level, it gains energy and nutrients from the consumed organism. This contributes to the transfer of energy through the food chain and helps regulate population sizes in the ecosystem.
no
When an organism from a higher trophic level eats an organism from a lower trophic level, most of the energy is converted to heat and lost through metabolic processes. Typically, only about 10% of the energy from the consumed organism is converted into biomass and available for the next trophic level. This energy transfer inefficiency is a key aspect of ecological energy flow.
Yes, when their diet varies they can fill more than one trophic level
hetrotrophs because they cannot make their own food. Of course
A snake is an organism that is a third-order heterotroph. Snakes belong to the third trophic level. There are approximately 3,000 species of snakes.
This transfer of energy from one organism to another, with approximately 10% efficiency, is known as a trophic transfer or trophic transfer efficiency. This process occurs as energy moves through different trophic levels in a food chain or food web.
No. A producer is a trophic classification of a living organism. Rain is not an organism.
Habitat
Trophic levels are the positions of organisms in a food chain. Energy is transferred through the trophic levels through ingestion at each level.
The trophic level is where an organism falls on the food chain. Most birds fall on the highest level, trophic level 4.