Question

A decline in population size in a remnant population of greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) was associated with a reduction in genetic diversity. The population of prairie chickens rebounded after a translocation of individuals from populations in neighboring states. This effort of restoring the genetic diversity and population numbers in prairie chickens is an example of ecosystem ecology community ecology conservation ecology

Answer 1

Ecosystem ecology: Ecosystem includes all the living organism and all the non living organism in a particular places. Ecology means the scientific study of ecosystem. Hence ecosystem ecology means study of all the living organasim and non living organism in a particular area.

So these option cannot fit as answer.

Community ecology: Community means a particular groups of organism located on a particular geographical area. And community ecology means the study of that community of organism which includes their daily interaction , behaviour, reproduction pattern etc. Hence this option is also wrong.

Conservation ecology: Conservation means preservation of wild life, plants , natural resources so that they cannot become extinct . Due to large scale exploitation of natural respurces by human many species becomes extinct or at the edge to be extinct. Conservation ecology preserved this organism from not becoming extinct.

Here the prairie chicken population declined due to lost of genetic diversity which means they may become extinct. To preserve them a new species of chicken from neighbouring state translocates. It will help to gain genetic variation among the prairie chicken population.

So these the example of conservation ecology.

The right answer is CONSERVATION ECOLOGY.