describe how environmental change can impact ecosystem stability
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| Environmental change | A change in precipitation or global temperatures. Environmental change may be the result of natural occurrences or impacted by human activity.
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| Ecosystem | is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system.
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| Ecosystem stability | refers to the capability of a natural system to apply self—regulating mechanisms so as to return to a steady state after an outside disturbance.
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| Terrestrial ecosystem | an ecosystem found only on landforms.
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| Algae overgrowth | is a relatively rapid increase in the population of (usually) phytoplankton algae in an aquatic system.
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