Following the 10% rule of energy transference between links in the trophic web, Snake population most likely belongs to the trophic level containing 10 J of energy. Option D is correct.
What is the 10% rule?
From the energy that reaches the earth's surface, only 0.1 or 1% is absorbed by autotroph organisms or producers. This small percentage of energy flows through all organisms in the ecosystem -from autotrophs to heterotrophs- until it dissipates in the environment.
Only 10% of energy is tranferred from one level to the next one. This assessment is called The 10% rule. It states that only about 10% of the energy stored as biomass at one trophic level, ends up as biomass at the next trophic level.
The progressive reduction of energy determines the number of trophic levels (4 or 5).
In the exposed example, the trophic chain starts with 10000J of the energy stored as biomass at the basal level. Only 10% of this amount will be stored as biomass of the following level. So,
- 10% of 10000J is 1000J
- 10% of 1000J is 100J
- 10% of 100J is 10J
⇒ The autotroph organisms storing 10000J in its biomass is the plant.
⇒ Plants pass 1000J (10% of this 10000J) to the biomass of grasshopper.
⇒ Grasshopper passes 100J (10% of this 1000J) to the biomass of the mouse.
⇒ The mouse passes 10J (10% of this 100J) to the biomass of snakes.
Snake population most likely belongs to the trophic level containing 10 J of energy.
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