forest primary productivity

Accidents - Large area of forest catches wild fire accidentally. If not controlled in time by proper methods, fire grows out of proportion. In the last 5 years two major wild fires (in USA and Malaysia) are recorded. Each of them has sent an estimated 1.5 million tons of CO 2 to atmospher..

. The products of these electrode reactions, May get deposited at the electrode surface. May go out in the form of gaseous products. May get dissolved into the solution as ions. This material formed directly at the surface is called primary product and this p..

. Vigilance at night is impossible without vehicles. There are only seven tame elephants. If the Forest Department is not armed with the necessary equipment how can it combat the onslaught of poachers who are actually organised criminals? The existence of these pachyderms is in our hands...

Types of Food Chains - There are mainly two types of food chains operating in nature. a) Grazing food chain b) Detritus food chain. Grazing food chain is generally seen in ecosystems such as grassland, pond or lake where a substantial part of the net primary production is grazed..

Agriculture - Agriculture is a very important human activity in any country. Agriculture is a primary activity - serving as the basis of many other activities. Agriculture supports food production, textile industries, food - based industries, agro - processing industries, oil - ..

Acidic water is dangerous for plants. Sulphuric and nitric acid rain damages the bark and leaves of trees and harms the fine root hairs of many plants which are needed to absorb water. It washes nutrients out of the soil. Leaf pigments are decolourised because acid affects green pigment (chloroph..

Sun as the primary source of energy - The Sun radiates energy in the form of heat and light. We utilize these forms of energy either directly or indirectly, after conversion into some other forms. Utilization of solar energy in various ways is as represented. Besides the primary..

>consumer . The primary consumer is eaten by another animal which is called the secondary consumer which may be eaten by a tertiary consumer and so on. This pathway of energy transfer from one organism to another constitutes a food chain. For example, in a forest community, gras..

One of the primary objectives of agriculture is to produce food. In the entire history of agriculture, food production has remained a prime objective. Human food needs have undergone many qualitative and quantitative modifications in the last 50 - 100 years. Mainly, the quantity..

In aromatic and aliphatic nitro compounds, nitro group undergoes similar reactions. However depending on the attachment of the aryl or alkyl groups, the reactivity may be different. Nitro compounds can be reduced to primary amines under a variety of conditions. The various reduction stage..