Which outcome arises where intensive terraced agriculture causes significant modification of hillside hydrology?

💡 Explanation

Flood pulses increase because terracing, while preventing surface erosion, compacts soil layers and reduces infiltration capacity, thereby increasing rapid surface runoff rather than groundwater absorption; therefore larger pulses, rather than reduced ones, are more likely.

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