SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 39

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Arthur Tansley.

Sir Arthur G. Tansley coined the term ecosystem in 1935.

• Ecosystem defines as study both plant and animal communities together, their interactions with inorganic nature, and their interrelations with human communities also.

Additional Information-

1. According to Eugene Odum, who is known as the Father of modern ecology, “Ecology is the study of structure and function of ecosystems".
2. Charles Sutherland Elton was the Father of Animal Ecology. He was an English zoologist and animal ecologist. His name is associated with the establishment of modern population and community ecology, including studies of invasive organisms.
3. Frederic Edward Clements was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of plant ecology and vegetation succession.
4.  He described plant succession as a developmental process through which the community underwent a well-defined series of stages that ultimately resulted in a mature, or climax community.