As you move up the biomass pyramid, the amount of biomass decreases because energy is lost as you move up trophic levels through energy transfer from one organism to another. This is due to the inefficiency of energy transfer as organisms consume one another.
Biomass decreases as you move up the pyramid due to the loss of energy through metabolic processes and heat production at each trophic level. As energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next, only a fraction is incorporated into the biomass of the organisms, leading to a decrease in biomass as you move up the pyramid.
Contaminants tend to bioaccumulate, meaning they become more concentrated as you move up the ecological pyramid because organisms at higher trophic levels consume many lower-level organisms. Contaminants can also biomagnify, increasing in concentration along the food chain due to the cumulative effect of each organism consuming contaminated prey.
Bio magnification is the process where toxins become more concentrated as they move up the food chain, whereas the energy pyramid shows the flow of energy through trophic levels with energy decreasing as it moves up. Both concepts illustrate the transfer of substances (toxins or energy) through an ecosystem, but in different ways.
i believe the concentration becomes greater as you move up the food chain, or up the biomass pyramid, meaning that the highest level of consumer has the highest amount of toxicity. I always thought it was the other way around but I've done some research and that's what I found.
No, energy decreases as you move up the trophic levels of an ecological pyramid due to energy loss through metabolic processes like respiration and heat loss. This is known as the 10% rule, where only about 10% of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
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The Biomass decreases as the energy is used up on the way to the "top".
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10% of energy is lost as you move from 1 level to the next. So at the end 90% if the energy will be lost as heat.
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they carried them up with their muscles
it will come less
The most energy is available at the producer level of the pyramid . As you move up the pyramid, each level has less energy available than the level below.
Biomass decreases as you move up the pyramid due to the loss of energy through metabolic processes and heat production at each trophic level. As energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next, only a fraction is incorporated into the biomass of the organisms, leading to a decrease in biomass as you move up the pyramid.
Biomass accumulates Think of it as a pyramid If the animals at the bottom consume a little then the next step up will have a little more in them because they just absorbed all of it when you get to the top you will have the highest concentration in the entire food chain.
Contaminants tend to bioaccumulate, meaning they become more concentrated as you move up the ecological pyramid because organisms at higher trophic levels consume many lower-level organisms. Contaminants can also biomagnify, increasing in concentration along the food chain due to the cumulative effect of each organism consuming contaminated prey.