• Kelly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It looks like the Amazon region was experiencing less rainfall at the time with a corresponding shift towards drought tolerant species with parts of the region as savannahs !!

    https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/2567

    With a different rainfall profile the nutrient loss would have been vastly reduced.