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Keystone species deserve protection beca...

Keystone species deserve protection because these

A

are capable of surviving in harsh environmnetal conditions

B

indicate presence of certain minerals in the soil

C

have become rare due to overexploitation

D

play an important role in supporting other species

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d
Keystone species is a species which has significant and disproportionately large influences on the community removal or decreases in number of keystone species causes disruption in structure and function of coommunity . For example in intertidal regions star fish feeds on mussles. Removal of star fish leads to dominances of musseles that excludes alage and browsing species. In tropical rain forest fig functions as keystone species as they provided fuirt to a number of animals during the period of food scaricity.
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