NEET 2024 · Class 12

Biodiversity and Conservation

Match List I with List II List-I | | List-II A. Robert May | I. Species-Area relationship B. Alexander von Humboldt | II. Long term ecosystem experiment using out door plots C. Paul Ehrlich | III. Global species diversity at about 7 million D. David Tilman | IV. Rivet popper hypothesis Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

  1. (A)A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
  2. (B)A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
  3. (C)A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
  4. (D)A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

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During his pioneering and extensive explorations in the wilderness of South American jungles, the great German naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt observed that within a region species richness increased with increasing explored area, but only up to a limit.

Chapter
Biodiversity and Conservation
Section
13.1.2 Patterns of Biodiversity
Page
4
Words matched
40 of 40

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75, emb=0.9815, combined=0.8889). Verified: high — The span explicitly states 'Alexander von Humboldt observed that within a region species richness increased with increasing explored area', which directly matches List-II option I 'Species-Area relationship' and conclusively justifies the B-I pairing in the correct answer.

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