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    $\begingroup$ How recent? Are we talking this past weekend, or recent in geological time? $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 18:37
  • $\begingroup$ recent as in long enough for life to have established itself or recent as in life is reproducing? also, what method of terraforming is being used and what is the planet like? the system around it? this has a pretty huge impact on what ecosystems and biomes and niches will be colonized in what order and when $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 18:42
  • $\begingroup$ This question falls into the following category: "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as wanting." Without complete pre-terraforming planetary and solar data, there's no practical way to answer this question other than "whatever you don't want...." The terraforming process will bring about wind, precipitation, oceans... the odds of there not being (e.g.) deserts, rain forests, alpine meadows... are close to zero - unless all that data I asked for prohibits it. Can you edit your question to provide all that data? $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 19:35
  • $\begingroup$ I find your question interesting, but I think you need to rehammer it into a better form. Keep in mind: *Terraforming takes centuries at minimum. Millions of years possibly.. *Nothing happens in a hurry. *few events are abrupt transitions. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 19:45
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    $\begingroup$ Interestig question. @JBH as many as want, man look at Willk's answer it is a bare miniumum, which jumps to mind second only to gas oil reserves and depthness of fertile soil layer. Sure there are more than one thing but combining the efforts and build some pool of such changes under one hut makes sense, haven't seen that elswhere. I mean those things aren't that random and free to be anything, in contrary, thise are signs of past life we may look on mars as an example $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 20:48