Which of the following statements is / are false? I. In ecosystem food webs are found. II. Dry w...
0Which of the following statements is / are false?
I. In ecosystem food webs are found.
II. Dry weight is chosen for expressing the biomass of a species. It is to avoid variation in weight due to seasonal moisture differences in the biomass.
III. Biogeochemical cycles occurs in Ecosystems.
IV. Photosynthesis and respiration are central to carbon cycle.
V. Atmosphere contains about \( 1 \% \) of total carbon.
VI. Rapid deforestation and massive burning of fossil fuel for energy and transport increased the rate of \( \mathrm{CO}_{2} \) release into the atmosphere causing green house effect.
VII. The products of ecosystem processes are named as ecosystem services.
VIII. Healthy ecosystems are base for a wide range of environmental services but not for economic growth.
IX. Healthy forest ecosystems not mitigate droughts.
\( X \) Robert Constanza et al have tried to put price tags on nature's life support services.
X. A. G. Transley coined the term Ecosystem
XIl. The open ocean and tropical rain forest are the two largest contributes to Earth's net primary productivity. Both have high rates of net primary productivity and both cover huge surface area of the Earth.
(a) I, III, V, ViI
(b) VIII and IX
(c) II, IV, VI, X
(d) XI, XII
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