Biodiversity & Ecosystem Stability

• The higher the biodiversity, the more stable the ecosystem.
• An ecosystem with low biodiversity is unstable; one small change could cause many species to die.
• Environmental change in an ecosystem with low biodiversity can even cause extinction in a species.
• Invasive species are non-native species of organisms in an ecosystem that reproduce quickly and have few natural predators
• Invasive species decrease biodiversity in an ecosystem by taking over food and space from native species.