The Reason We Observe a "Pyramid" of Energy Flow Instead

question 56

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The reason we observe a "pyramid" of energy flow instead of an energy flow "cube" is because the low ecological efficiency of biological systems limits the numbers of organism in the higher trophic levels.

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