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A pasture of 40 hectares has a biomass of 40 kg/hectare, or roughly calories of energy. Cattle grazing on this pasture are sold for beef. About how many calories of energy from the pasture reach human consumers of the beef?
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10000
Option A (10000) is correct because only about 1% of the energy from the pasture reaches human consumers due to energy loss at each trophic level.
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