BROOKER BIOLOGY
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Chapter 54, Problem 2CQ
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To determine: The reason due to which fires are more frequent in prairies than in hotter, drier desserts.
Introduction: A system formed with the help of interactions between organisms and their physical environment is known as the ecosystem. The temperature affects biological processes of an organism and thus, decides the distribution of organisms in a particular geographic area. Fire highly increases the temperature of
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