Question

How do biodiversity, the total number of living organisms and biomass vary during ecological succession?

Answer 1

The term biodiversity will refer to the number of the living organisms or we call also say that the living organisms with the different species is known as the biodiversity. Whereas the biomass is that in which the energy gets generated by burning the food or also the organic substances.

So when there is the progress occur in the succession there leads to the increase in the biodiversity, i.e in the number of the living organisms and also in the biomass and this tremendous increase will get stop when the ecological succession reached to its particular level or also we can say when reached to the final level.

So when this ecological succession takes place so at that time in its first stage the carbondioxide is used and also its fixation is at the higher rate in the biomass. this is due to the fact that as during the succession there is the increase in the rate of the living organisms.

And at the final stage the carbondioxide is been used by the photosynthesis and due to which it gets equal in terms of production by the cellular respiration whereas the fixation of the Carbon in biomass will finally be zero.