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Organisms&population
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the various levels of ecological organisation | These are organism, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, biome and biosphere |
| What is the basic unit of study in ecology | Organism |
| What do you understand by biological community | Assemblage of population of different species present in an area with show interdependence and interaction like competition, predation, host parasite interaction etc |
| What do you understand by ecosystem | Composed of a biological community, integrated with its physical environment through the exchange of energy and recycling of the nutrients |
| What do you understand by landscape | A unit of land with a natural boundary having mosaic of patches which generally represent different ecosystem |
| What do you understand by biome | |
| A large regional unit characterized by a major vegetation type and associated fauna found in a specific climatic zone | |
| What is biosphere | Life supporting zone which comprises all the earth's Terrestrial and aquatic biomes |
| Levels of ecology | It is basically concerned with four levels of biological organisation, population, communities and biomes |
| Who gave the term ecology | Reiter in 1868 |
| Definition of ecology by Ernst Haeckel | He define ecology as the science dealing with reciprocal relationship of organisms and the external world |
| Who is the father of ecology in India and father of plant ecology | Professor R Mishra is known as the father of ecology in India and warming is the father of plant ecology |
| How does E.P.Odum define ecology | Study of structure and function of nature |
| Define the features of Tropical rainforest in India | Mean annual temperature is 23 to 27 degree Celsius mean annual rainfall is 2000 to 3500 mm important vegetation are dipterocarpus and hopea |
| Define the features of tropical deciduous forest in India | Mean annual temperature is 22 to 32 degree Celsius mean annual rainfall is 900 to 1600 mm important vegetation are Sal, teak, tendu, chiraunji, khair |
| What is the feature of temperate broadleaf forest | Mean annual temperature is 6 to 20 degree Celsius mean annual rainfall is 1000 to 2500 mm important vegetation is oak |
| What are the features of temperate needleleaf forest |