Transferred Of Biomass

Question 1

How much energy do producers transfer?

Answer 1

They transfer about one percent of the incident energy from light for photosynthesis

Question 2

How many percent of biomass from each trophic level is transferred to the level above it?

Answer 2

10%

Question 3

What are the causes of losses of biomass?

Answer 3

. Not all ingested material is absorbed into the body. Some is egested as faeces.
. Not all the absorbed material is used to make new environment mass some is lost as a waste, such as carbon dioxide and water and respiration and water and urea in urine.
. Large amounts of glucose are used up in respiration and provide energy for movement growth and keeping a constant body temperature.

Question 4

What is the equation used to find out the efficiency of by mass transfer between two trophic levels?

Answer 4

Efficiency of biomass transfer = biomass transferred to the next level / biomass available at the previous level x 100