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How is an alein species invasion considered as one of the causes of biodiversity loss ? Support your answer with the help of an example.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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When alien species are introduced unintentionally or deliberately for whatever purpose, some of them turn invasive and cause the decline or extinction of indigenous species.

EXAMPLE- The Nile perch introduced into Lake Victoria in east Africa led eventually to the extinction of an ecologically unique assemblage of more than 200 species of cichlid fish in the lake.

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