Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub

The accelerated rates of species extinctions that the world is facing now are largely due to human activities. There are four major causes ('The Evil Quartet' is the sobriquet used to describe them). In general, loss of biodiversity in a region may lead to$\left(\mathrm{a}\right)$decline in plant production,$\left(\mathrm{b}\right)$lowered resistance to environmental perturbations such as drought and$\left(\mathrm{c}\right)$increased variability in certain ecosystem processes such as plant productivity, water use, and pest and disease cycles.