Biology / Unit 14 Bio 3675 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Tracing Energy Loss and Nutrient Cycling Through a Food Chain, Worked
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The idea
This procedure traces both energy flow and nutrient cycling through the same food chain simultaneously, drawing together this chapter's trophic-level, energy-loss, and biogeochemical-cycle atoms.
Where people slip
Assuming carbon and energy move through a food chain by the same rules is the error here — carbon transfers efficiently and cycles back to producers, while energy transfers inefficiently and never returns, per Bio 3655.
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