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(A, B, D) Statement $A$ is correct: Habitat loss and fragmentation are the most important causes driving animals and plants to extinction. The Amazon

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$A$. The Amazon rainforest being cut and cleared for cultivation of soyabeans is an example of habitat loss.

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(A, B, D) Statement $A$ is correct: Habitat loss and fragmentation are the most important causes driving animals and plants to extinction. The Amazon rainforest is being cut and cleared for cultivating soya beans or for conversion to grasslands for raising beef cattle.Statement $B$ is correct: Over-exploitation by humans has led to the extinction of species like Steller's sea cow and passenger pigeon.Statement $C$ is incorrect: The introduction of the Nile perch into Lake Victoria in East Africa led to the extinction of an ecologically unique assemblage of more than $200$ species of cichlid fish in the lake.Statement $D$ is correct: Water hyacinth $(Eichhornia 	ext{ } crassipes)$ is an alien species that became invasive and caused environmental damage.Statement $E$ is incorrect: When a species becomes extinct, the plant and animal species associated with it in an obligatory way also become extinct, a phenomenon known as co-extinction.Therefore, statements $A, B,$ and $D$ are correct.

List $I$	List $II$
$A$. Robert May	$I$. Species-Area relationship
$B$. Alexander von Humboldt	$II$. Long term ecosystem experiment using outdoor plots
$C$. Paul Ehrlich	$III$. Global species diversity at about $7$ million
$D$. David Tilman	$IV$. Rivet popper hypothesis

Which of the following statements are correct?

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