Multiple Choice
What is production efficiency?
A) The rate of photosynthetic fixation as a function of temperature.
B) The percentage of energy assimilated by an organism that becomes new biomass.
C) The amount of energy used by organisms at every node of a food web.
D) Consumption of primary production by the second and third levels of a food web.
E) The net gain to an ecosystem based on photosynthetic production.
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