trophic level

noun Ecology.

any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.

Origin of trophic level

First recorded in 1940–45; see trophic

Words nearby trophic level

trophectoderm, trophedema, trophesy, trophi, trophic, trophic level, trophic ulcer, trophied, tropho-, trophoblast, trophoblastic lacuna

Scientific definitions for trophic level

trophic level

Any of the sequential stages in a food chain, occupied by producers at the bottom and in turn by primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. Decomposers (detritivores) are sometimes considered to occupy their own trophic level.♦ The rate at which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next is called the ecological efficiency. Consumers at each level convert an average of only about 10 percent of the chemical energy in their food to their own organic tissue. Since plants can only convert approximately 1 percent of incident sunlight into chemical energy at the lowest trophic level (the bottom of the food chain), the percentage of the energy in incident sunlight that reaches a tertiary consumer is about 0.0001.

单词	trophic level
释义	trophic level noun Ecology. any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. Origin of trophic level First recorded in 1940–45; see trophic Words nearby trophic level trophectoderm, trophedema, trophesy, trophi, trophic, trophic level, trophic ulcer, trophied, tropho-, trophoblast, trophoblastic lacuna Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Scientific definitions for trophic level trophic level Any of the sequential stages in a food chain, occupied by producers at the bottom and in turn by primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. Decomposers (detritivores) are sometimes considered to occupy their own trophic level.♦ The rate at which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next is called the ecological efficiency. Consumers at each level convert an average of only about 10 percent of the chemical energy in their food to their own organic tissue. Since plants can only convert approximately 1 percent of incident sunlight into chemical energy at the lowest trophic level (the bottom of the food chain), the percentage of the energy in incident sunlight that reaches a tertiary consumer is about 0.0001. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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