New Message: Ecological Degradation

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By: Spike Hall (spike.hall@drake.edu)

One indication that a biological system losing robustness is a loss of members of the system. For example, a terminal forest which is not degraded by bad hunting regulations and poor culling of trees might have 7 healthy forest floor herbivore species. The fewer species the less capable the total habitat of surviving various 'tests' of its equilibrium.