Suppose rabbits consume 600 kg of the 2400kg of available vegetation and they as

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Suppose rabbits consume 600 kg of the 2400kg of available vegetation and they assimilate half of that and their production efficiency is 25%. How much rabbit biomass is available for foxes to forage upon?

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Here production efficiency of rabbits i.e. 25% of 600 kg = 150 kg, is the biomass available to foxes to forage upon. The production efficiency tells us about how much biomass was formed after growth and reproduction, by utilizing the energy available from the last trophic level. Here rabbits consumed 600 kg and could give away 150 kg of biomass to next trophic level.

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