Which outcome results from reduced vegetation cover in semiarid regions?

💡 Explanation

Increased dust storms arise as reduced vegetation diminishes soil cohesion, facilitating **deflation**, lifting loose particles into the atmosphere; therefore, dust storms intensify, rather than lessened soil salinity because deflation preferentially removes finer particles instead of salts.

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