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What happens to the ecosystem’s resilienceto disturbance

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The loss of an ecosystem's ability to recover from a disturbance—whether due to natural events such as hurricanes or volcanic eruptions or due to human influences such as overfishing and pollution—endangers the benefits (e.g., food, clean water, and aesthetics) that humans derive from that ecosystem.
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