Which risk increases when terraced hill slopes become oversaturated?

💡 Explanation

Increased water content reduces soil shear strength causing slope failure via soil creep, because the effective normal stress decreases. Therefore, soil creep accelerates, rather than increasing plant efficiency, retaining nutrients, or increasing thermal inertia which require drier or stable conditions.

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