Which of the following best describes the flow of energy in the Everglades food web shown below? – American alligator → carp → insects → mangrove; about 10 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level. – Egret → carp → insects → sawgrass; about 90 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level. – Mangrove → insects → carp → egret → American alligator; about 10 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level. -Sawgrass → insects → Southern leopard frog → raccoon → American alligator; about 90 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.

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Which of the following best describes the flow of energy in the Everglades food web shown below?

– American alligator → carp → insects → mangrove; about 10 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.
– Egret → carp → insects → sawgrass; about 90 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.
– Mangrove → insects → carp → egret → American alligator; about 10 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.
-Sawgrass → insects → Southern leopard frog → raccoon → American alligator; about 90 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.

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b) Mangrove → insects → Southern leopard frog → raccoon → American alligator; about 10 percent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.

A food chain is a linear sequence of food and energy transfer, when another organism eats one organism in an ecosystem. A food network is the interconnection between food chains. The energy being transferred among the organisms is relative to an energy pyramid, indicating the trophic levels. Energy is lost at each subsequent trophic level by 10%, when the biomass in organic form is depleted from lower trophic levels to higher levels.

Thus, Mangrove → insect → Southern leopard frog → raccoon → American alligator; about 10 per cent of the energy in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level most appropriate to define the flow of energy in the Everglades food web.