“…Agricultural practices lead to losses of natural resources and biodiversity (Godfray & Garnett, ). One mechanism to minimize the impact of clearing for agriculture and other production activities on biodiversity is to maintain riparian forest strips (insects: Barlow et al, , Brito et al, , Gray, Lewis, Chung, & Fayle, , Gray, Slade, Mann, & Lewis, ; macroinvertebrates: McClain, ; fish: Giam et al, ; birds: Machtans, Villard, & Hannon, , Mitchell et al, , Whitaker & Montevecchi, ; bats: Lloyd, Law, & Goldingay, , Mullin, ; small mammals: Al‐Khudhairy Gutierrez, ; Chapman & Ribic, ; Cockle & Richardson, ; Darveau, Labbe, Beauchesne, Belanger, & Huot, ; large and medium‐sized mammals: Paolino et al, , Phoebus, Segelbacher, & Stenhouse, , Zimbres, Peres, & Machado, ). These strips may become prominent features in agricultural landscapes and may assume disproportionate roles in protecting biodiversity outside protected areas (Arriaga‐Flores, Castro‐Arellano, Moreno‐Valdez, & Correa‐Sandoval, ; Mendenhall, Karp, Meyer, Hadly, & Daily, ; Naiman, Decamps, & Pollock, ).…”