Therefore, primary consumers get about 10% of the energy produced by autotrophs, while secondary consumers get 1% and tertiary consumers get 0.1%.
Animals that feed on primary consumerscarnivoresare secondary consumers.
Energy that had been used by the primary consumers for growth and storage is thus absorbed into the secondary consumers through the process of digestion.
They are also mainly secondary consumers, ingesting primarily detritus, meio-, and macrobenthic fauna and fish.
Foxes eat rabbits at the second trophic level, so they are secondary consumers.
This means they really belong to the third trophic level, secondary consumers, along with the forage fish.
Then come the primary consumers, such as grasshoppers, voles and bison, followed by the secondary consumers, shrews, hawks and small cats.
It is one of the top ten most abundant secondary consumers in the system and the most important predator of commercially important prawn species.
