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Why do predators increase the variety of species living in an ecosystem

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Predators have profound effects throughout their ecosystems. Dispersing rich nutrients and seeds from foragingthey influence the structure of ecosystems. And by controlling the distribution abundance and diversity of their prey they regulate lower species in the food chain an effect known as trophic cascades.

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