#Question id: 11288
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Below is a table showing the number of species and actual food web links observed in three different ecosystems. By calculating connectance as a measure of relative complexity of food webs, which of the following ecosystem are more complex?
#Question id: 11289
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Consumption efficiency (CE) is the proportion of production at one trophic level (Prodn n-1) that is eaten by, or ingested, by the next trophic level (In) but Assimilation efficiency (AE) is the proportion of ingested energy assimilated in to blood stream
Which of the following is incorrect statement?
A) In terrestrial herbivore, AE is greater than CE
B) In aquatic herbivore AE is equal to CE
C) CE of grass land herbivore is often greater than forest herbivore
D) AE of herbivore is often greater than carnivore
#Question id: 11290
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Which of the following statement are incorrect?
#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