NEET Biology question
Statement 1: The community of an ecotone commonly contains the organisms of each of the overlapping communities and, in addition, organisms restricted to the ecotone. Statement 2: The tendency for increased variety and density at a community junction is known as the edge effect.
Answer: (B)
Solution
Both statements are independently true and standard NCERT definitions — an ecotone does contain species from both adjoining communities plus some unique to itself, and this increased variety/density at the junction is indeed named the edge effect — but statement 2 is better understood as a separate,
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