“…This intensification has led to the replacement of native vegetation and grasses with exotic, African grass species (Miranda et al, 2018). The result is an increasing simplification of the landscape, with loss, fragmentation, and degradation of natural habitats and severe negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services (e.g., Barbosa da Silva, Arieira, Parolin, Nunes da Cunha, & Junk, 2016;Dorado-Rodrigues, Layme, Silva, Nunes da Cunha, & Stru¨ssmann, 2015;Nunes, 2015;Silveira, Tomas, Fischer, & Bordignon, 2018;Thompson & Velilla, 2017;Tomas, 2017;Tomas, Freitas, & Pereira, 2013).…”