NEET BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

BIODIVERSITY AND ITS CONSERVATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An ecosystem is considered stable if it is both resistant and resilient.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An ecosystem is considered stable if it is both resistant and resilient. At the international level, the United Nations has facilitated several treaties to promote biodiversity. Most scientists agree that cloning provides much help to prevent biodiversity loss.

Detailed explanation-2: -The two key components of ecosystem stability are resilience and resistance. Resistance is an ecosystem’s ability to remain stable when confronted with a disturbance. Resilience is the speed at which an ecosystem recovers from a disturbance.

Detailed explanation-3: -In ecology, an ecosystem is said to possess ecological stability (or equilibrium) if it is capable of returning to its equilibrium state after a perturbation (a capacity known as resilience) or does not experience unexpected large changes in its characteristics across time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Diversity-Stability Theory Biologically diverse communities are also more likely to contain species that confer resilience to that ecosystem because as a community accumulates species, there is a higher chance of any one of them having traits that enable them to adapt to a changing environment.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ecosystems that are more complex are more resilient, or better able to tolerate and recover from disturbances, than ecosystems that are less complex. To help illustrate why this is, imagine a complex ecosystem with many components and many interactions between those components.

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