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Top predators are often keystone species in their habitat. Explain what happens to the biodiversity of an ecosystem when a top predator is deliberately removed from the ecosystem in which it lives.

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The ecosystem will fall out of balance.

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The ecosystem will fall out of balance because once you remove the top predator, the plant eaters will grow in numbers, they will eat all of the vegetation, and will either need to adapt or die. Predators are very important, as is everything in the food chain

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