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Explain ten percent law with an example.

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Lindeman in 1942 proposed ten percent law. This law states that when the energy is transferred from one trophic level to another trophic level, only 10% of food energy is stored at every level. The rest of food energy (90%) is lost through respiration, decomposition and in the form of heat. Hence this law is called ten percent law.
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