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.

-Based on Figure 55.8,what can you conclude about land-use legacy in the southern Yucatán?

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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.
 
-Based on Figure 55.8,what can you conclude about land-use legacy in the southern Yucatán?

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As the Mayan population increased, deforestation increased, which likely led to increased soil erosion, impacting the land-use legacy in the southern Yucatán.

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