if 800kj of energy is available to insect what will be the amount of energy passed on to snakes in the food chain?why?
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80kj. This is because only 10% of energy is passed to next trophic level.
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Explanation:
Dr. Raymond Lindeman, an ecologist introduced the Ten Percent Law of Energy Transfer in 1942. According to this theory, only 10% of energy from organic foods is stored as flesh when it gets transferred from one trophic to next level. Here, if we consider plants as the basic energy producer and insects as primary-level carnivores then 10% of ten 800 kj energy 80 kj will be available for next secondary level.
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