Q: If people released more tertiary consumers at the top of the pyramid to equal the bottom of the pyramid, then what would happen to the population?

Flexi Says: Only about 10 percent of the energy at one trophic level is available to the next level. Therefore, the top of the pyramid cannot sustain the same amount of organisms as the bottom of the pyramid. If additional tertiary consumers were introduced, they would exceed carrying capacity and their population would decrease back to a sustainable level.