Question

Many countries are cutting down forests to make way for agriculture and roads. How might this practice disrupt the carbon cycle? What reservoirs and processes might be impacted? Why? Answer the question in a 3-5 sentence paragraph.
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Understanding the carbon cycle and how it behaves requires that we think of it as a complex dynamic system with components of the system interacting with each other in often unpredictable and emergent ways. A change in one part of a complex system can often cause a myriad of changes in other parts of the system. The Amazon forest ecosystem is a good example of a complex ecosystem currently undergoing changes.

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