Test: Indian Environment - 1 - UPSC MCQ

• The Convention on Wetlands is known as the Ramsar Convention. The Convention was named after the Iranian city of Ramsar where this intergovernmental treaty was adopted in 1971.

• The treaty came into force in 1975. Ramsar convention provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.

• As an ecosystem, wetlands are useful for nutrient recovery and cycling, releasing heavy metals through absorption by plants.
• They also control floods and maintain floods.
• Wetlands are important features in the landscape that provide numerous beneficial services for people and fish and wildlife.
  • Some of these services, or functions, include protecting and improving water quality, providing fish and wildlife habitats, storing floodwaters, and maintaining surface water flow during dry periods.
• Wetlands can be thought of as "biological supermarkets".

organisms and nonliving factors such as rocks, air, water, chemicals etc.

species not found in the overlapping communities.

• The orderly sequence of change in the vegetation of an area over time is described as succession or ecological succession.

• It is a phenomenon or process by which an ecological community undergoes more or less orderly and predictable changes following a disturbance or the initial colonization of a new habitat.

Reserve Forests are other areas in this category.

caps and other snow-laden areas which contribute to the water cycle.