Question
While formulating his CSR life history model, Philip Grime defined disturbances as any process that reduces this quantity.
[10m] Name this quantity which, along with productivity or abundance, can be used to define the tiers of a trophic pyramid. For one specific trophic level, the rate of this quantity’s accumulation is calculated by subtracting energy lost from respiration from GPP.
ANSWER: biomass [prompt on productivity or production or primary productivity or primary production with “productivity measures the rate of the production of what quantity?”]
[10e] According to Grime’s CSR model, plants well-suited to engage in this interaction thrive in low-disturbance, low-stress habitats. This interaction sees different organisms fight each other over resources.
ANSWER: competition [accept competitive plants]
[10h] In one hypothesis, this ecologist suggested that local biodiversity is highest in areas experiencing an intermediate amount of disturbances. This man worked with Ralph Slayter to develop the facilitation, tolerance, and inhibition models of ecological succession.
ANSWER: Joseph Connell [or Joseph Hurd Connell; accept Connell-Slayter model of ecological succession]
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