What trend across the systems best shows how restoration supports stability after drought?

Restored floodplains and wetlands can absorb and slow runoff, stabilize soil, and filter pollutants. Those functions help ecosystems withstand drought and recover afterward, so the trend that best shows restoration supporting stability is that they reduce erosion and pollution. The other choices describe worsening conditions or a decline in a process, not a clear recovery of ecosystem functions.

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