Question

1. “The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” This wise Japanese adage addresses which ecological concept(s)? Choose the BEST answer.
2. 1. Ecosystem resilience
   2. Food-webs
   3. Sustainable development
   4. The organismic view of the community and the ecosystem
   5. All of the above

Answer 1

Best Answer: Ecological resilience or ecological robustness is the ecosystem's ability to maintain its normal nutrient cycling and production of biomass even after being subjected to severe change caused by an ecological disturbance.

Other optiond are wrong becuse they do not fit well with the idea of the proverb.

Food-webs: Member of higher trophic level feed upon many organisms. Food webs improves the adaptability and competitiveness of the organism. (Second best answer)

Sustainable development: Using recycled materials or renewable resources when building is an example of sustainable development.

Organismic view of the community: organisms, or communities, that are thought to have properties (e.g. homoeostasis or reproduction) similar to those of a single living organism, making them 'superorganisms'.