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What are ecosystem services? Give several examples.
Describe how some economists have tried to assign monetary
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- What is one example of an ecosystem service? How would life be different without that service?What makes an ecosystem resilient? Use this sentence starter: ecosystems are resilient because... Use THE TEXT GIVEN ONLYWhat is a trophic cascade? How do you integrate the concept into ecosystem management programs and decision-making?
- If a community within an ecosystem is stable does that mean the entire ecosystem can be considered stable as well?Explain how ecosystem modeling is useful in addressing ecological problems? Give a specific example to expound your argument.What is the importance of ecosystem services and what are the benefits does the biodiversity gets in ecosystem services?
- In an ecosystem with four levels producers, primary consumers, and two higher-level consumers describe where the decomposers operate within the context of these trophic levels. Can you give me two examples?What is food chain?Explain the different types of food chains in the ecosystem.In the following food chain, what biomass of phytoplankton will have been required to produce a 1 kg of big fish? Assume a typical figure for ecological efficiency. Phytoplankton eaten by Zooplankton eaten by Small fish eaten by Big fish A. 10 kg B. 10000 kg (10 metric tons) C. 100000 kg (100 metric tons) D. 100 kg E. 1000 kg (1 metric ton)
- What is meant by the term sustainable development?Define the term ecosystem services. Give three examples of ecosystem services that people would have a hard time replacing if these were lost.Questiion: A given ecosystem has the following amounts of energy available at each trophic level: Primary producers: 3,000 gC/m2/day; Primary consumers: 450 gC/m2/day; Secondary consumers: 45 gC/m2/day; Tertiary consumers: 2.25 gC/m2/day. Does this ecosystem follow Lindeman’s Law for ecological efficiency? A- No, the average efficiency is 20% B- Yes, the average efficiency is 20% C- Yes, the average efficiency is 10% D- No, the average efficiency is 10%