The flow chart illustrates the consequence of deforestation. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.

The process diagram gives a clear explanation of how continuous forest removal would have negative future effects. The major repercussions in view are flooding and reduced biodiversity. Flooding is influenced by the use of large logging machinery whose weight causes extensive soil compression.

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would be the basis of a hard soil with a baked texture, and so rainwater continually runs off.

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, the area alongside its plant and animal species is drowned. Loss of biodiversity is attributed to invasion by new life forms and loss of fauna , and is

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three factors.

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, cutting down trees would lead to fewer roots holding the topsoil in, and

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, the topsoil erodes. Pioneer organisms

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move in and degrade the vegetation.

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, there is an increased incidence of burning that could be accidental or purposeful. Afterwards, there is an availability of destroyed waste wood , which encourages micro-organisms to feed on it,

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resulting in the presence of colonist microbes that destroy the vegetation. Third and

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, extensive logging of woods causes plants to put back less moisture in the air, and

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would slow down precipitation.

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leads to increased drought and, as stated, a presence of settler organisms that would degrade the ecosystem. All of which leads to the loss of various species.