The mass of living material at a trophic level at a particular time is called:
- Gross primary productivity
- Standing state
- Net primary productivity
- Standing crop
Solution
Standing crop represents the total amount or number of living things or of one kind of living thing (such as an uncut farm crop, the fish in a pond, or organisms in an ecosystem) in a particular area at any given time. For example, in a population of deciduous tree between summer and winter.
Asked in: NEET 2015 (Phase 1)