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In general, forests and afforestation are seen as positive for the water balance and the hydrological cycle. Nevertheless, little is known about the quantitative changes in nutrient and hydrological budgets following changes in land use (Van der Salm et al. 2006). The same can be said for agriculture, where there’s a lack of integrated quantitative understanding of how agricultural modifications of the hydrological cycle regulate the prevalence and severity of abrupt changes in ecosystems (Gordon, Peterson, and Bennett 2008). Compaction as a result of intensification of agricultural practices (by livestock or machine wheels) affects water supply regulation (Haygarth and Ritz 2009).