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What characteristics make a community stable?
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Solution
Characteristics that make a community stable are:
- A stable community should not show too much variation in productivity from year to year
- It must be either resistant or resilient to occasional disturbances (natural or man-made)
- It must also be resistant to invasions by alien species.
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