Food chains are sometimes short because(A) only a single species of herbivore feeds on each plantspecies.(B) local extinction of a species causes extinction of the otherspecies in its food chain.(C) most of the energy in a trophic level is lost as energy passesto the next higher level.(D) most producers are inedible.

Food chains are sometimes short because(A) only a single species of herbivore feeds on each plantspecies.(B) local extinction of a species causes extinction of the otherspecies in its food chain.(C) most of the energy in a trophic level is lost as energy passesto the next higher level.(D) most producers are inedible.

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Chapter24: Principles Of Ecology

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