Assertion: In a food chain, members of successive higher levels are fewer in number.
Reason: Number of organisms at any trophic level depends upon the availability of organisms which serve as food at the lower level.
1. Both Assertion & Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
2. Both Assertion & Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
3. Assertion is true statement but Reason is false.
4. Both Assertion and Reason are false statements.
Why is net primary production (NPP) a more useful measurement to an ecosystem ecologist than gross primary productivity (GPP)?
1. NPP can be expressed in energy/unit of area/unit of time.
2. NPP can be expressed in terms of carbon fixed by photosynthesis for an entire ecosystem.
3. NPP represents the stored chemical energy that is available to consumers in the ecosystem.
4. NPP is the same as the standing crop