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How can the extinction of a single species affect how the ecosystem functions? give an example?

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Extinction of even a single keystone species will cause significant change to the ecosystem. Extinction of a species that is easily replaced by others may have little impact

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It can throw the ecosystem off because species depend on each other so if one is gone it can make everything gone down hill.
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