Assertion: gopher tortoise | /r/HasProperty | important
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: in its native community
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The gopher tortoise is especially important because the burrows, which are dug by the tortoises, also provide homes for other animals, such as indigo snakes, gopher frogs, mice, foxes, skunks, opossums, rabbits, quail, armadillos, burrowing owls, snakes, lizards, frogs, toads and other invertebrates, gopher tortoise burrows are home to about 250 species of animals at one time or another.
text: As the leading burrow-builder in the ecosystem, the gopher tortoise is a very important species in its native community.
text: They are considered important, or "keystone," species because these burrows provide habitat for numerous other species.