Key term for OCR GCSE Biology B, used in Biodiversity Conservation.
A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
Keystone species appears in OCR GCSE Biology B revision content for Evolution and Biodiversity, especially Biodiversity Conservation and Maintaining Biodiversity.
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