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GK QUESTION#4016

Who among the following proposed the term ‘ecosystem’?

  1. AAG TansleyCorrect answer
  2. BGrinnel
  3. CLindeman
  4. DTurreson
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A. AG Tansley

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Arthur George Tansley introduced the term ecosystem in 1935 for a system comprising organisms and their physical environment. Lindeman subsequently developed influential work on trophic dynamics.

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