Agricultural expansion has caused widespread loss of tropical rainforests, which support an outstanding diversity of species and provide valuable ecosystem services (Lewis et al., 2015). This expansion is predicted to continue in the coming decades to provide food and resources for a growing human population (Laurance et al., 2014).Deforestation for agriculture causes a reduction in forest area and increased fragmentation of remaining forest, with consequences for biodiversity and key ecosystem functions such as carbon storage
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