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Energy flow — the 10 percent rule
ecology
About a tenth of the energy at one trophic level reaches the next (sealed), so food chains are short and top predators rare - the second law paid at every step.
source
Narrow Highway — ecology
card id
card_ecology_energy_flow
address
WIT.codex.FCT/energy-flow-the-10-percent-rule/REF.WITNESSED@narrow-highway
adjoining cards
- part of → Ecology — energy and number in the living world — a pillar (Energy flow)
- connects at → Biology — life is self-replicating chemistry — trophic levels - who eats whom in the living world
- connects at → Thermodynamics — the arrow and the one end — energy is lost as heat up the food chain - the second law
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