00:01
So i have the trophic level, terrific pyramid here from wikipedia, and i'm going to use this as my image source.
00:07
And so we can see here that on our trophic pyramid, these primary producers have less biomass than the primary consumers, and it goes down by a factor of 10.
00:17
And this is what's referenced in the question.
00:21
And so we always have things like carnivores are always going to be less biomass than everything under it.
00:28
And this will always be the case.
00:29
Because every time that you eat that you eat and your lot of the energy is lost as heat and so because of that we need we need much much much more biomass down here in order to support things like things like the top predators here and so in order in order to get if you move the decimal over right in order to get one in a unit of one apex predator you need let's count the decimal points one two three oh i wait these are all factors of 10 you need 10 100, 1 ,000, 10 ,000 times more.
01:04
We can do that by our decimal points.
01:06
We can go, let's see, we move this.
01:08
This is one, two decimal points, three, four.
01:11
That's 10 ,000 fold more primary producers in biomass to make one apex predator.
01:18
I hope that relationship kind of makes sense...