A Species Is Fundamentally Essential to an Ecosystem; Its Loss

question 47

Multiple Choice

A species is fundamentally essential to an ecosystem; its loss changes the structure of the entire community, even though it may only represent a small portion of the population.

• A) rivet
• B) baseline
• C) keystone
• D) redundant
• E) footprint

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