Based on the food web, would you consider wooly mammoth a keystone species? Why or why not?

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Based on the food web, would you consider wooly mammoth a keystone species? Why or why not?
This is a mammoth food web.
Woolly Mammoth Food Web
Key
Main food source
Pack
Other food source
Animals
Cave Hyena
Big Cats
Human
Wolf
Hare
Woolly Mammoth
Insects
Sedges
Grasses
Flowering
Plants
Trees
Boreal Forest
Plants
Transcribed Image Text:This is a mammoth food web. Woolly Mammoth Food Web Key Main food source Pack Other food source Animals Cave Hyena Big Cats Human Wolf Hare Woolly Mammoth Insects Sedges Grasses Flowering Plants Trees Boreal Forest Plants
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A food web is the natural interconnection of the food chains and a graphical representation of who-eats-whom in an ecological community. Food web can also be known as consumer-resource system. 

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