The Hubbard Brook watershed deforestation experimentyielded all of the following results except which of thefollowing?(A) Most minerals were recycled within a forest ecosystem.(B) Calcium levels remained high in the soil of deforestedareas.(C) Deforestation increased water runoff.(D) The nitrate concentration in waters draining the deforestedarea became dangerously high.

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