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It looks like the Amazon region was experiencing less rainfall at the time with a corresponding shift towards drought tolerant species with parts of the region as savannahs !!
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/2567
With a different rainfall profile the nutrient loss would have been vastly reduced.
Neat, thanks!