Omnivores, who feed on both plants and animals, can also be considered asecondaryconsumer.
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A predator to zooplankton and fish, the ringed seal is considered a primary consumer as well as asecondaryconsumer.
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Secondary consumers, those animals that feed on fallen fruits or seeds, can influence counts of remains.
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Primary production provides for all trophic members as it provides energy to primary consumers that in turn provide energy to secondary consumers and so forth.
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It is one of the top ten most abundant secondary consumers in the system and the most important predator of commercially important prawn species.
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Then come the primary consumers, such as grasshoppers, voles and bison, followed by the secondary consumers, shrews, hawks and small cats.
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This means they really belong to the third trophic level, secondary consumers, along with the forage fish.
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Foxes eat rabbits at the second trophic level, so they are secondary consumers.
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They are also mainly secondary consumers, ingesting primarily detritus, meio-, and macrobenthic fauna and fish.
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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.
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Animals that feed on primary consumerscarnivoresare secondary consumers.
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Therefore, primary consumers get about 10% of the energy produced by autotrophs, while secondary consumers get 1% and tertiary consumers get 0.1%.
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