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What happens in a rainforest if the leaf canopy is thinned or destroyed?

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What happens in a rainforest if the leaf canopy is thinned or destroyed?

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Sunlight will reach farther down into the understory, which might help plants down there grow faster. Some animals live their entire life in the canopy, so an extended range of thin or no canopy would fragment their habitat.