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Food Chains and Trophic Levels

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State what does "standing crop" of a trophic level represent.

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Standing crop at a trophic level is defined as the amount of biomass or mass of living material at a trophic level at a given time.

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(a) What is a trophic level in an ecosystem ? What is 'standing crop' with reference to it ?

(b) Explain the role of the 'first trophic level' in an ecosystem.

(c) How is the detritus food chain connected with the grazing food chain in a natural ecosystem ?

Q. Ecologically what does standing crop means?

What are trophic levels? Give an example of a food chain and state the different trophic levels in it.

Q. What do you mean by standing crop and standing state?

Q. Assertion (A): The mass of living material in a particular trophic level at a particular time is called the standing crop

Reason (R): Measurement of biomass in terms of fresh weight is more accurate

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