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  • Pyramid of Biomass & Pyramid of Energy is considered one of the most asked concept.

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If 20 J of energy is trapped at producer level, then how much energy will be available to peacock as food in the following chain?

plant \rightarrow mice \rightarrow  snake \rightarrow  peacock

The mass of living material at a trophic level at a particular time is called :

Mass of living matter at a trophic level in an area at any time is called

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Pyramid of Biomass & Pyramid of Energy

Pyramid of Biomass

  • A pyramid of biomass takes into account, for a given unit area, the biomass of the producers, the biomass of the herbivores, the biomass of the first-level carnivores, and so on.
  • The biomass of a single tree is naturally very higher than the biomass of a number of birds feeding upon the tree. Similarly, the biomass of even a very large number of bird parasites is lesser than that of the birds. Therefore, in an upright pyramid the biomass decreases with successive trophic levels.
  • The pyramid of biomass in the sea is also generally inverted because the biomass of fishes far exceeds that of phytoplankton.
     

Pyramid of Energy

  • A pyramid of energy shows the flow of energy from one trophic level of a community to the next. 
  • The pyramid of energy represents the total amount of energy utilized by different trophic level organisms of an ecosystem in a limited area over a set period of time.
  • Pyramid of energy is always upright, and can never be inverted, because when energy flows from a particular trophic level to the next trophic level, some energy is always lost as heat at each step. 
  • Each bar in the energy pyramid indicates the amount of energy present at each trophic level in a

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