Question

Explain the river-popper hypothesis .name the ecologist who proposed it.

Answer 1

Ecologist Paul helrich have the rivet pooper hypothesis

Answer 2

Answer:

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich gave rivet popper hypothesis to help understand the contribution species richness, He compared each species with rivet in the body of an airplane. (i) This hypothesis explains that ecosystem to be an airplane and the species to be the rivets joining all parts together. (ii) If every passenger travelling in the airplane start taking rivets home (causing a species to become extinct), initially it may not affect flight safety (proper functioning of ecosystem), but over a period of time the plane becomes weak and dangerous (species become endangered and then extinct.

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