In the following food chain, if 50 J of energy was available to the hawk, how much energy would have been…
In the following food chain, if 50 J of energy was available to the hawk, how much energy would have been present at the first and third tropic levels ? Justify your answer.
Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Hawk
Solution
The energy at first trophic level will be 5,00,000 J.
The energy at third trophic level will 5000 J.
10% can be taken as the average value for the amount of organic matter/energy that is present at each step and reaches the next level of consumers.