Desertification directly impacts the capacity of the land to produce biomass (plants, animals, and microorganisms), which is the core definition of biological productivity. While agricultural productivity (a subset of biological productivity) is also severely affected, and industrial/human productivity are indirectly impacted, the fundamental ecological decline is in biological productivity.
Desertification leads to decline in ________.
Asked in HPPSC HPAS Prelims 2020 · Topic: Environment and Sustainable Development (Deforestation, Desertification, and Land Degradation)
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Answer: C. Biological productivity
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