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Explain briefly the ‘rivet popper hypothesis’ of Paul Ehrlich.

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Paul Ehrlich who is an Ecologist have developed rivet popper hypothesis that helps in the understanding of the contribution to species richness. He does comparison of each the species with rivet in the body of an airplane.

This hypothesis explains that ecosystem to be an airplane and the species to be the rivets joining all parts together.
If every passenger travelling in the airplane start taking rivets home (causing a species to become extinct), initially it may not affect flight safely (proper functioning of ecosystem), but over a period of time the plane becomes weak and dangerous (species become endangered and then they extinct).

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