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Published on: August 13, 2026
In a food web, each successive trophic level has
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B
According to the 10% law, only about 10% of the energy is transferred to the next trophic level The remaining 90% is lost as heat during respiration and other metabolic processes at each stage This continuous loss ensures that each successive level always has significantly less total energy than the one before it
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