Explain what happens to contaminants and environmental pollution (such as mercury) as you move down and up the ecological pyramid (what is this called?).
1 Answer
Jun 27, 2018
Biomagnification is the term
Explanation:
If you go up in the ecological pyramid, you see that synthetic contaminants, heavy metals and metalloids are in higher concentration in living organisms.
According to Medical Dictionary, biomagnification is: "The increasing concentration of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain".
As far as I know, there is no term used as acronym of biomagnification.
Reference:
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/biomagnification