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6. Keystone species

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Dear readers,  Hello, and welcome back to the Voice of Prakriti ! It has been quite long, but to prevent it from being any longer, I'm back with a very interesting scenario. Imagine waking up one morning and finding your street piled with uncollected garbage. The bins overflow, the smell lingers, flies gather. We ignore it at first, thinking the mess will be sorted tomorrow. But when a day or two passes and nothing changes, the garbage begins to pile up. Frustration sets in - not just from the mess, but from the disruption of something you never paid attention to before. The garbage collector, who is invisible on ordinary mornings, has suddenly become the most important person in your world. That’s what a keystone is. Whether it’s a person or a species, their absence reveals how much they quietly held together. Keystone species and keystone systems are the pillars of nature’s structure. Whether in forests or seas - when those pillars weaken, everything else around them bends or br...