Correct option:(3)Standing state
Solution:
- Amount of all the inorganic nutrients like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and calcium present in soil at any given time is
called as standing state. - Amount of living material present in different trophic levels at a given time is called standing crop.
- Climax community is the last community in biotic succession.
- It is relatively stable and is in near equilibrium with the environment of that area.