What If There Were No Sea Otters?: A Book about the Ocean Ecosystem
- ISBN-10
- 1404863974
- ISBN-13
- 9781404863972
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 24
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-08-01
- Publisher
- Capstone
- Author
- Suzanne Slade
Description
Discusses the ocean ecosystem and the role of the sea otter as a keystone species in helping to maintain it, describing the otter's place on the food chain and what would happen if the sea otter were to become extinct.
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