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Chapter 48, Problem 2SQ
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Introduction: The human activities mostly have the potential to not only harm individual species, but to also transform entire biomes. Human activities mostly damage the ecosystem. Sometimes, an ecosystem is damaged so much that the conservation of the ecosystem is not enough to sustain biodiversity.
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