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Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests

2014-01-16 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Human population growth and associated food demand will likely take a heavy toll on tropical ecosystems unless major shifts occur in how crops are produced and consumed, warns a new review published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Noting that projections published by the U.N. now forecast the human population to swell to 11 billion before the end of the century, William F. Laurance, Jeffrey Sayer, and Kenneth Cassman highlight potential impacts of agricultural expansion on biodiversity in the...

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