What keeps an ecosystem stable, and what changes it

A stable ecosystem can absorb small disturbances and return to roughly the same balance of species over time, but a big enough disturbance, like a major wildfire or the arrival of an invasive species, can push an ecosystem past that point and into a genuinely different, new stable state.

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