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Preferred term

keystone species

Is replaced by

keystone species

Definition

[Henderson's] species that have a key role in an ecosystem, affecting many other species, and whose removal leads to a series of extinctions within the system.

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Scope note

MS Academic Keywords

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0571

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Created 8/3/16, last modified 3/21/22

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