Which risk increased as Mesoamerican civilizations relied heavily on continuous maize cultivation with limited crop rotation?

💡 Explanation

When societies relied upon monoculture maize cultivation, reduced biodiversity occurs because limited rotation depletes specific nutrients, increasing the vulnerability agriculture systems to synchronized blight. Therefore, susceptibility to blight increased, rather than salinity, carbon levels, or methane which depend on water table elevations, biomass dynamics, different biogeochemical processes.

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