Stable Communities

Biology: AQA GCSE Higher, topic 7.1.4

Stable Communities

A community is stable when all the species and environmental factors are balanced and population sizes stay more or less constant.

Test yourself on Stable Communities

  • What happens to population sizes when a community is stable?

  • Why can removing one species from an ecosystem make the community unstable?

  • Why might removing a species that provides shelter for others reduce their population size?

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