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Why is phytoplankton in the first trophic level?
Phytoplankton make their own food through photosynthesis, and are therefore autotrophs and producers.
What is a trophic level?
Successive stages of nourishment as represented by the links of the food chain. According to a grossly simplified scheme the primary producers (ie, phytoplankton) constitute the first trophic level, herbivorous zooplankton the second trophic level, and carnivorous organisms the third trophic level.
How are trophic level efficiency measured?
Trophic level efficiency is the ratio of production of one trophic level to the production of the next lower trophic level. This efficiency is never high.
In ecology green plants are part of what trophic level?
The first trophic level, which are the producers
What trophic level is at the bottom in Biology?
Primary producers are the bottom most trophic level.
Phytoplankton in the ocean are in which trophic level?
Phytoplankton make up the whole first trophic level.
Why is phytoplankton in the first trophic level?
Phytoplankton make their own food through photosynthesis, and are therefore autotrophs and producers.
The trophic level with the highest biomass?
Producers generally have the highest biomass.Producers are photosynthetic organisms in most environments, such as plants and phytoplankton; they support the bottom of the food web and trophic levels.
What is a trophic level?
Successive stages of nourishment as represented by the links of the food chain. According to a grossly simplified scheme the primary producers (ie, phytoplankton) constitute the first trophic level, herbivorous zooplankton the second trophic level, and carnivorous organisms the third trophic level.
What trophic level are scavengers?
Scavengers are on every trophic level
What is the trophic level of the bird?
The trophic level is where an organism falls on the food chain. Most birds fall on the highest level, trophic level 4.
What is the hawks trophic level?
they are tertiary consumers. the first trophic level.
what are the trophic level for monarch butterflies?
Their trophic level is primary consumer.
What trophic level is a salamander?
Third trophic level. It eats insects.
Animals that feed on plants are in what trophic level?
In which trophic level are all plants found?
What is efficiency level?
Trophic level efficiency is the ratio of production of one trophic level to the production of the next lower trophic level. This efficiency is never high.
How are trophic level efficiency measured?
Trophic level efficiency is the ratio of production of one trophic level to the production of the next lower trophic level. This efficiency is never high.
