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Tuna sandwich

This Tuna sandwich diagram illustrates food web/trophic pyramid.

On average, only 10% of the energy from an organism is transferred to its consumer. This means that a top-level consumer, such as a tuna, is supported by millions of primary producers from the base of the food web or trophic pyramid.

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