Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 48, Problem 2SQ
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Introduction: The human activities mostly have the potential to not only harm individual species, but to also transform entire biomes. Human activities mostly damage the ecosystem. Sometimes, an ecosystem is damaged so much that the conservation of the ecosystem is not enough to sustain biodiversity.
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