During the rate of succession several factors would be observe at the pioneer as well as climax community;

STAGES	CHARACTER
A) Pioneer community	i) Biotic Potential low
B) Climax community	ii) Root to Shoot ratio is high
	iii) Productivity per biomass is low
	iv) Net primary productivity is high
	v) P/R ratio is greater than 1
	vi) Nutrient cycling is closed
	vii) Regeneration ability is more
	viii) Resistance ability is more

Match the community stages with its given characters;

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#Question id: 10716

#10. Ecological Principles

The stability of a food web in a community is quantified using certain parameters which are defined below. Which of the following is an CORRECT representation?

A. Community with more complex is more stable

B. Community with more number of alternate is more stable

C. Stability of community is inversely proportional to Connectance 

D. Community with higher value of dominax index is more stable

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#Question id: 10719

#10. Ecological Principles

Five Hypotheses Explain How Species Richness Affects Community Services, Following statement are given

A) Community services decline with decreased species richness in a stepwise fashion.

B) Species that play the same roles in a community can compensate for each other if some are lost under particular conditions

C) Species richness declines even slightly from its natural levels, community services are reduced immediately

D) Community services change as the number of species increases or decreases, but that the direction of change is not predictable.

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#Question id: 10720

#10. Ecological Principles

What is the Jaccard index between the two communities?

Species	Community A	Community B
1	5	8
2	3	6
3	0	4
4	11	2
5	2	0

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#Question id: 10731

#10. Ecological Principles

Shannon index of diversity is calculated using the equation below

Community with 5 species and evenness value is one, what will be value of Shannon index

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#Question id: 10732

#10. Ecological Principles

A community plus the nonliving factors with which it interacts is called a(n)

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#Question id: 10734

#10. Ecological Principles

This term is a measure of the ability of a system to resist change in the face of outside influences.