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How are gopher tortoises important to other species in their ecosystem? How would these other species be affected if the gopher tortoise became extinct?

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The gopher tortoise is unique in that it is Federally listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act only in the portion of its range occurring west of the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers in Alabama (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1987). In the eastern portion of its range, the gopher tortoise is a Candidate species for federal protection (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2011). The gopher tortoise has some form of state-level protection in each state in which it occurs and is a State-designated Threatened species in Florida.

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