- The process by which toxins accumulate in an organism’s tissues over time because the organism cannot eliminate them.
- Toxins are passed from one trophic level to the next, increasing in concentration as they move up the food chain.
- The process by which toxins become increasingly concentrated at each successive trophic level in a food chain or food web.
- This occurs because organisms at higher trophic levels consume large quantities of organisms from lower levels, accumulating the toxins stored in their prey.
- Toxins increase as you move up a pyramid; therefore, a biomagnification pyramid is a reverse pyramid compared to an energy pyramid.
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