FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Question
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bioaccumulation
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biomagnification
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bioassimilation
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bioramification
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Detailed explanation-1: -Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance, e.g a pesticide, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Biomagnification refers to the increased concentration of a toxic chemical the higher an animal is on the food chain.
Detailed explanation-3: -This is biomagnification, and it means that higher-level predators-fish, birds, and marine mammals-build up greater and more dangerous amounts of toxic materials than animals lower on the food chain.
Detailed explanation-4: -Biomagnification occurs when slightly larger organisms called zooplankton feed upon the contaminated phytoplankton and in turn absorb POPs into their own tissues at a higher concentration. The more contaminated phytoplankton a zooplankton eats, the more pollutants it will have in its body.