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Focal species

The species that is identified as being most sensitive to a threat in a changing environment. Species are being lost from areas in which their habitats are being destroyed, fragmented or simplified. Focal species can be used to identify the appropriate spatial and functional parameters that must be present in an environment if it is to retain the biota that occurs there.

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