Trophic Level Transfer Efficiency TLTE= Energy transfer to next level/ energy recieved during transfer *100
or Trophic level transfer= Total energy during transfer- total energy transferred.
Matter transferred across each trophic level= Biomass from the higher trophic level-biomass in lower energy level
Explanation:
The total energy transfer in the trophic level is called as Trophic Level Transfer Efficiency (TLTE), it can be calculated as
TLTE= Energy transfer to next level/ energy received during transfer *100
We know that only 10 per-cent of energy is transferred between organisms at each trophic level.
The energy consumed by producers or consumers, only 10 percent is used up because nearly 90 per-cent energy gets dissipated as heat and used up in metabolic processes like digestion, reproduction respiration, cell division etc.
The matter in the trophic level is explained as the producers start the chain and lead to apex or tertiary consumers, during this process when apex dies the decomposers comes in action. They make nutrients from dead and decaying and from soil it goes to plants and hence to consumers, cycle goes on.
The gaseous carbon dioxide is a matter, will get fixed by sunlight in photosynthesis and passed on to consumers who made complex biomolecule as glucose and it goes on increasing in complex molecules eventually reaching to decomposers. We see that matter remains conserved and works within the system.
The biomass or matter transfer decreases with trophic level
