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

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.