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← HistoryWhich outcome occurs as intensive maize cultivation exhausts soil nutrients within a chinampa system?
A)Elevated nitrogen levels promote algal blooms
B)Increased soil salinity inhibits crop growth
C)Declining yields force fallow periods✓
D)Anaerobic decomposition generates methane
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When soil nutrients are exhausted, nutrient depletion limits maize yields due to reduced nutrient availability, creating a nutrient deficiency for the crops. Therefore declining yields necessitate fallow periods, rather than algal blooms, salinity, or methane, which are all contingent on organic matter or salts accumulating in the water or soil.
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