To determine the amount of energy available to the secondary consumer, let's first calculate the energy transfer efficiency between trophic levels. Typically, around 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
Energy available to secondary consumer = Energy produced by primary producer * Energy transfer efficiency
Energy available to secondary consumer = 78,871 KCAL/m2 * 0.10 = 7,887 KCAL/m2 year
Therefore, the secondary consumer in this ecosystem will have 7,887 KCAL/m2 year of energy available to it.
In this ecosystem oak trees have the biomass of 124,788 G over M squared to create the 78,871 KCAL over M2 year of energy how much energy will the secondary consumer have
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