ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Chemical Energy
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Light Energy
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Rank in the feeding heirarchy
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Amount of living tissue at the tropic level
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Detailed explanation-1: -Biomass refers to the mass or weight of living tissue or biological organisms in a given area. There are two types of food chains : DFC (detritus food chain)-It begins with dead and decaying organic material.
Detailed explanation-2: -Biomass is the energy in living organisms. Autotrophs, the producers in a food web, convert the sun’s energy into biomass. Biomass decreases with each trophic level. There is always more biomass in lower trophic levels than in higher ones.
Detailed explanation-3: -The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level is called its biomass.
Detailed explanation-4: -Biomass in an ecosystem is the mass or weight of living tissue, which is commonly subdivided into five fundamental trophic levels forming the basic food chain: 1. producers, which are green photosynthesizing plants 2.
Detailed explanation-5: -Biomass is the mass of living organisms maintained at each trophic level. It can be calculated by multiplying mass of living organisms and their number in an ecosystem.