Consider three sample areas with the following composition:
Sample area I: | has three species of birds, two are represented by one individual each and the third by four individuals |
Sample area II: | has three species of birds, each represented by two individuals |
Sample area III: | has a species of insects, a species of mammals and a species of birds, each with two individuals |
Which area will be considered as the most diverse?
1. Sample area I
2. Sample area II
3. Sample area III
4. Sample area II and Sample area III are equally diverse
The biodiversity hotspots in India include all the following except:
1. | Western Ghats and Sri Lanka | 2. | Indo-Burma |
3. | Himalayas | 4. | Deccan plateau |
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Assertion (A): | Conserving the biological diversity of the ecological hotspots is very important component of efforts to safeguard the world’s biological heritage. |
Reason (R): | The hotspots of biodiversity cover a large percentage of the land area of earth. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
3. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are False. |