Surface runoff is increased by deforestation.
What is deforestation?
It refers to the removal of forest layers for non-forest-related projects.
Forest layers serve a variety of functions in the ecosystem, including reducing the rate of erosion or runoff by water.
Thus, removing forest layers will lead to an increase in the rate of runoffs in the ecosystem.
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