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Biology
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Author: Audesirk, Teresa, Gerald, Byers, Bruce E.
Publisher: Pearson,
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Chapter 28.5, Problem 2CYL
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Some examples of the effects of removing keystone species on their communities.

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Keystone species form a balance in the communities present in the ecosystem. If this balance is disturbed by removing these species then the community interactions get disturbed and the population of these species gets altered tremendously leading to disturbances in the ecosystem.

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