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प्रश्न
According to David Tilman, greater the diversity, greater is the primary productivity. Can you think of a very low diversity man-made ecosystem that has high productivity?
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उत्तर
Agricultural fields like wheat field/paddy field are also examples of monoculture practices.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How is biodiversity important for ecosystem functioning?
What characteristics make a community stable?
Elaborate how invasion by an alien species reduces the species diversity of an area.
Can you think of a scientific explanation, besides analogy used by Paul Ehrlich, for the direct relationship between diversity and stability of an ecosystem?
Explain briefly the ‘rivet popper hypothesis’ of Paul Ehrlich.
Match List I with List II-
| List-I | List-II |
| A. Robert May | I. Species-Area relationship |
| B. Alexander von Humboldt | II. Long term ecosystem experiment using outdoor plots |
| C. Paul Ehrlich | III. Global species diversity at about 7 million |
| D. David Tilman | IV. Rivet popper hypothesis |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Identify the INCORRECT statement.
Among ‘The Evil Quartet’, which one is considered the most important cause driving extinction of species?
