>>2544140Ah, it'll all work out in a few hundred years. Plant epidemics and competition will even out the distribution in plants, introduced predators will even out the distribution in other wildlife. The land still retains some uniqueness because some native species will invariably adapt.
>>2544142IDK, I think human activity can push dry grasslands over the edge into desert. Look at what China and Mongolia are dealing with rn. The central Asian steppe is having serious issues with desertification wherever heavy grazing occurs. I think this happened on a continental scale in Africa in the bronze/iron age, when the large herds of the Sahara so heavily grazed the land that it lost the water stored in the plants and animals living there. I think this permanently strengthened Hadley cell circulation, which pushed the dry savannahs of the Sahara into desert. After all, the Sahara does creep further into the Sahel every year, because blaqs cannot into managing the size of their herds and families; they just breed up to the carrying capacity of the environment and then half of em die when the next drought hits. This of course expands the Sahara even further.
There are cave paintings of hippos, rhinos, elephants, etc. in places that are now desolate. It's a mighty short timescale for natural climate change to operate alone...
