#Question id: 11291
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
A small lake has three trophic levels- phytoplankton (autotrophs), Zooplankton (herbivore) and planktivorous fish (primary carnivore). In this lake, addition of nutrients is allowed to study the 'bottom up' effects". What is the expected biomass of phytoplankton and zooplankton tropic levels?
#Question id: 11292
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
In an pond ecosystem the _____ is always greater than the _____ .
(a) number of primary producers . . . number of secondary consumers
(b) biomass of secondary consumers . . . biomass of primary consumer
(c) assimilation efficiency of primary consumers . . . assimilation efficiency of secondary consumers
(d) biomass of primary producers . . . biomass of primary consumers
#Question id: 11293
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Measurement of phytoplankton production, take sample of phytoplankton suspended in two bottles in lake. One bottle (D) is dark in colour but second bottle (L) light in colour. After some time productivity measure as follow Where Lo –oxygen concentration in light bottle, Do –oxygen concentration in Dark bottle, Io –oxygen concentration in bottle before incubation
A) Lo- Do B) Lo- Io C) Io- Do
#Question id: 11294
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
A small lake has three trophic level – Phytoplankton(autotroph) , Zooplankton (herbivore ) and planktivorous fish ( primary carnivore) . In to this lake Population of some other primary carnivore introduced to study top down effect . What is expected long term consequence of this introduction ?
#Question id: 11295
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
The amount of energy entering a food chain depends on the
#Question id: 11296
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Which of the following statements is true?