Figure 558 Use the Following Information When Answering the Corresponding Question(s)

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Multiple Choice

Figure 55.8 Use the following information when answering the corresponding question(s) .
Abstract:
Recognition of the importance of land-use legacies in most ecological systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate and essential subject of environmental science. Ecologists, conservationists, and natural resource policy makers now recognize that the legacies of land-use activities continue to influence ecosystem structure and function for decades or centuries-or even longer-after those activities have ceased. Copyright © 2003 American Institute of Biological Sciences. (Foster, D.R., F. Swanson, J. Aber, D. Tilman, N. Brockaw, I. Burke and A Knapp. 2003. The importance of land-use and its legacies to ecology and environmental management. BioScience 53:77-88.)

-Based on the figure above,what can you conclude about land-use legacy in the southern Yucatán?

• A)Massive soil erosion caused the Mayan population to crash.
• B)Reduction in forest cover caused the Mayan population to crash.
• C)As Mayan population increased,deforestation increased,leading to increased soil erosion.
• D)All of the above answers are correct.

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