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(B) The Rivet Popper hypothesis was proposed by Paul Ehrlich. It assumes the ecosystem to be an aeroplane and the individual species to be the rivets

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$A-$ecosystem; $B-$species

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(B) The Rivet Popper hypothesis was proposed by Paul Ehrlich. It assumes the ecosystem to be an aeroplane and the individual species to be the rivets that hold the aeroplane together. If every passenger popping a rivet to take home as a souvenir (causing a species to go extinct),it may not affect flight safety initially,but as more rivets are removed,the plane becomes dangerously weak over a period of time. Thus,$A$ refers to the ecosystem and $B$ refers to the species.

Column-$I$	Column-$II$
$(P)$ Genetic diversity	$(I)$ Diversity at the genetic level
$(Q)$ Species diversity	$(II)$ Diversity at the species level
$(R)$ Ecological diversity	$(III)$ Diversity at the ecosystem level

The Rivet Popper hypothesis assumes the $A$ to be an aeroplane and the $B$ to be the rivets,joining all parts together. Here,$A$ and $B$ refer to:

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