Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology (11th Edition)
Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133923001
Author: Gerald Audesirk, Teresa Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 31.2, Problem 2CYL
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Why biodiversity helps to maintain functioning ecosystems.

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In biodiversity, all the plants, animals, and humans species live together.

The ecosystem is where all the living species and non-living environment lives together and maintains the ecosystem.

Biodiversity helps to maintain the functioning of the ecosystem because if functioning is not maintained, it will cause damage to the ecosystem. Damage includes habitat loss, mass extinction of the species, imbalance of food chain or food web, imbalance of ecosystem, and climate destruction.

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