10 percent law is related with ........

Environment and Ecology Concept of Ecosystems

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10 percent law is related with:

Transfer of energy as a food from one trophic level to other.

Transfer of heat from one matter to other matter.

Deflected back of sun rays after striking on the earths surface.

Non of the above

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Explanation:

The ten percent law of transfer of energy from one trophic level to the next can be attributed to Raymond Lindeman (1942),^[although Lindeman did not call it a "law" and cited ecological efficiencies ranging from 0.1% to 37.5%. According to this law, during the transfer of organic food energy from one trophic level to the next higher level, only about ten percent of the transferred energy is stored as flesh. The remaining is lost during transfer, broken down in respiration, or lost to incomplete digestion by higher trophic level