Imagine that during a drought a community shows only a modest reduction in npp (say, 10%), but never recovers its pre-drought productivity. an ecologist would describe the community as having:

High resistance, but low resilience

Explanation:

The stability of a community is expressed in terms of resistance and resilience. Resistance refers to the tolerance of a community against any disturbance. It represents the ability of the community to remain stable and maintain equilibrium in the presence of disturbance before it changes. Resilience is the ability of a community to restore the equilibrium after any natural or artificial disturbance.

According to the given information, the community shows only a 10% reduction in its NPP during drought. This shows that the community is highly resistant to drought. However, it does not restore the pre-drought productivity after the drought. This means that the community has low resilience.

biology is the study of life. it is the study of living organism.

it takes hundreds of years to become stable.

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