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Question
State the reason for limited number of trophic levels in nature.
Solution
There are only 4 to 5 trophic levels in a food chain. This is because only 10% of energy, under the 10% law of energy transfer, moves from one trophic level to the next. As a result, energy consumption declines as trophic levels are reached.
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