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The base of the food chain determines the number of levels above it. The first level needs to use about 90% of the energy that they make for themselves for growing and reproducing. That leaves 10% for the next level. That level uses 90% of that 10% for growth and reproduction. That means that only 1% of that can go up for the next level to use. Only in a very few ecosystems (tropical rain forests or temperate rain forests) is there even enough another level.

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