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Energy Flow

The movement of energy around an ecosystem by biotic and abiotic means. Ecological pyramids (food chains) is where a sizable percentage of energy is held, where organisms in the chain supply an energy source to other organisms and so forth, to the top of the chain which then decomposes after death.


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