ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Subject 59 Forestry · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersWhy forest biodiversity matters, what threatens it, and how genes, species and ecosystems are conserved in situ and ex situ, under national law and international conventions. The Sustainability track's biodiversity-conservation is the general version; this subject focuses on forest species and forest genetic resources.
In the exams: IFoS Forestry Paper I Section B (environmental conservation and biodiversity); ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 11 (in situ and ex situ conservation, sacred groves); GATE EY Section 5
How our questions for ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF spread across the units of Conservation Biology & Forest Genetic Resources. Difficulty: 0 easy, 36 medium, 13 hard.
| Conservation of forest genetic resources | 7 | |
| Island biogeography, metapopulations and minimum viable populations | 6 | |
| IUCN Red List categories and criteria | 6 | |
| Ex situ conservation: arboreta, seed banks, clone banks, cryopreservation | 6 | |
| Environmental impact assessment for forest projects | 5 | |
| Threats: habitat loss, fragmentation, overexploitation, invasive species, climate change | 4 | |
| In situ conservation: protected areas, biosphere reserves, sacred groves | 4 | |
| Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya Protocol and national biodiversity laws | 4 | |
| Ecosystem services and their conservation | 4 | |
| Levels of biodiversity: genetic, species, ecosystem | 3 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Island biogeography predicts the most species on islands that are:
A. Large and near the mainland
High immigration, low extinction.
The first biodiversity heritage site notified under the Biological Diversity Act, in 2007, was:
D. Nallur Tamarind Grove
Nallur Tamarind Grove in Karnataka was notified in 2007.
Cryopreservation stores plant material in liquid nitrogen at about:
B. -196 C
Metabolism effectively stops.
The deliberate movement of warm-adapted genotypes into existing populations is called:
A. Assisted gene flow
A climate adaptation measure under study.
The regional network coordinating FGR conservation in Europe is:
D. EUFORGEN
APFORGEN serves Asia and the Pacific.
The Cartagena Protocol regulates the transboundary movement of:
A. Living modified organisms
Adopted 2000, in force 2003.
The correct order of stages in India's EIA process is:
D. Screen, scope, consult, appraise
Four stages in that order.
Compensatory afforestation is criticised as an offset mainly because plantations:
D. Poorly replace forest biodiversity
Poor sites and weak monitoring also limit it.
Classifications such as CICES drop supporting services mainly to avoid:
A. Double counting
Supporting services underpin the others.
A fast-growing exotic plantation may provide high carbon storage while supporting:
A. Little native biodiversity
Services and biodiversity must both be considered.
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