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  1. Trophic level - Wikipedia

    • The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. Within a food web, a food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves. The trophic level of an organism is the number of steps it is from the start of the chain. A food web starts at trophic level 1 with primary producers such as … See more

    History

    The concept of trophic level was developed by Raymond Lindeman (1942), based on the terminology of See more

    Overview

    The three basic ways in which organisms get food are as producers, consumers, and decomposers.
    • Producers (autotrophs) are typically plants or algae. Plants and algae do not usually eat other or… See more

    Biomass transfer efficiency

    In general, each trophic level relates to the one below it by absorbing some of the energy it consumes, and in this way can be regarded as resting on, or supported by, the next lower trophic level. Food chains can be diag… See more

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