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State the ten percent law. 

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This law was proposed by Lindeman (1942). It states that during transfer of food energy from one trophic level to other, only about 10% is stored at every level and rest of them (90%) is lost in respiration, decomposition and in the form of heat. Hence, the law is called ten percent law.
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