Supercontinents like Pangaea, which fashioned round 300 million years in the past, performed a key function in biodiversity
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The altering move of nutrient-rich soil throughout the planet because the continents shifted was a key driver of evolution and biodiversity, researchers have discovered – suggesting that the human-driven soil degradation we see at the moment could also be having a bigger impression on ecosystems than beforehand thought-about.
Tristan Salles on the College of Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues made the invention with a pc mannequin that recreates the motion of Earth’s landmasses, utilizing information on historical precipitation,…
