The mass of living material at a trophic level at a particular time is called:

The mass of living material at a trophic level at a particular time is called:
  1. Gross primary productivity
  2. Standing state
  3. Net primary productivity
  4. 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)

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