Refer to the Tables

question 45

Essay

Refer to the tables.
You are studying how energy flows in a food web. The data in Table 1 shows the dietary composition of species in your study area (for species A-H). To read the data table, start at a species in column 1, read to the right across that row to find the number of individuals consumed, then read straight up to determine the species that it consumed. For example, species C consumed 15 individuals of species A. What is unusual about the dietary composition of species E? Give a possible reason for this pattern.

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