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A biomass pyramid looks like an energy pyramid, in that the largest biomass is contained in the producer level, and the least biomass is contained in the level of the highest order consumer. Basically, as you move up the energy pyramid, there is less energy available to support the biomass at each subsequent level.
A pyramid of biomass shows how much energy the organism on a food chain is getting from its food.
THE LEVEL ON the pyramid that has the most biomass is the tertiary level.
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a biomass pyramid
A pyramid of numbers will only tell you the amount of organisms at each trophic level. A Biomass pyramid ignores the amount of organisms in favour of their biomass (dry weight) which in turn represents the amount of energy available at each trophic level.
The energy pyramid illustrates the flow of energy through trophic levels in an ecosystem, with energy decreasing as it moves up from producers to consumers. It demonstrates that energy is lost at each level due to metabolic processes, limiting the number of organisms that can be supported at higher trophic levels.
Biomass - the total dry weight of the organisms in a trophic levelBiomass Pyramid - a diagram showing the biomass at each trophic level of a food chainA pyramid of biomass shows energy lost in each trophic level while a pyramid of numbers shows the numbers of the organisms in each trophic level
Those at the top of the food pyramid contain consumers with the smallest number and therefore, with the least total biomass compared to the layers below them.
Biomass pyramid
The biomass at any given trophic level is accumulated from a much larger toxin-containing biomass ingested from the level below.
Biomass pyramids show how much biomass is present in the organisms at each trophic level. A pyramid of numbers does not deal with living organisms. Source: chacha.com This, again, is my brainless answer! However, please take it seriously, for I found it in a real website this time. -_-