Question

How do diverse ecosystems respond to natural or man-made disturbances?

Options

• They are highly resilient and recover quickly from disturbances

• They remain permanently damaged without recovery

• They show no measurable response to disturbances

• They collapse immediately upon any disturbance

Answer 1

Disturbance Resistance is a property of diverse ecosystems where high species diversity enables them to be highly resilient and recover quickly from both natural disturbances (like storms or droughts) and man-made disturbances (like pollution or habitat modification). This resilience is attributed to the functional redundancy provided by multiple species performing similar ecological roles.