<h3><u>The Food webs are preferred over food chains for representing the flow of energy in an ecosystem for the following reasons:
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- The food webs are higher in complexity when compared to food chains and also, in food web, more than one primary producers is present which increases the 'flow of energy' in the ecosystem.
- Food web represents the real life better than the food chains do.
- Food web shows many different paths through which the organisms can be connected.
Answer:
D. Supporting
Explanation:
Ecosystem services include provisioning, regulating, culture and supporting services.
Opening of a mineral mine along a small mountain range will affect the supporting services of ecosystem because supporting services deals with soil formation, provision of habitat and nutrition cycle.
Opening of mineral mine will destroy the tosoil, landscape, forests and wildlife of mountain area which affect the supporting services such as habitat and soil formation.
Hence, the correct answer is "D. supporting".