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What is a keystone species ? Give an example.

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A Keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance. Such species are important in maintaining the structure of an ecological community by affecting other organisms in the ecosystem and helping to determine the abundance of other species in dams, modifies nutrient cycling, influences decomposition dynamics which ultimately influences other plants and animals of that area.
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