Explain what happens to contaminants and environmental pollution (such as mercury) as you move down and up the ecological pyramid (what is this called?).

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G_Ozdilek
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

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