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← HistoryWhich outcome unexpectedly resulted from intensive Chinampa farming?
A)Reduced soil salinity levels
B)Diminished crop genetic diversity
C)Increased methane gas release✓
D)Reversed nitrogen concentration gradients
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Intensive Chinampas farming produced surplus carbon and supported archaea; Microbial decomposition via methanogenesis increased methane production. Therefore methane gas increased, because of increased organic mater, rather than decreasing soil salinity.
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