Which environmental outcome emerged after the widespread Mono culture of maize by early Mesoamerican civilizations?

💡 Explanation

When maize monoculture became widespread, the lack of crop rotation depleted specific soil nutrients and favored certain microbial populations, decreasing the overall diversity of the soil microbiome because continuous nutrient extraction changes soil dynamics impacting organism survival. Decreased microbiome diversity led to less resilient fields, rather than carbon dioxide decrease or rain increases since the scale of impact was limited and localized.

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