pexels.com Forest and Climate Change |Forest and Climate Change| A forest is a large area dominated by trees. Forests ae the dominant terrestrial ecosystem an are distributed throughout the world. Forest compromises 75% of the gross primary production of Earth’s biosphere and contains 80% of the Earths plant biomass. Forest at different latitudes and elevation supports different kinds of ecosystems: boreal forests near the poles, tropical forests near the equator and temperate near the mid-latitudes. Temperature, precipitation and edaphic factors also affects the forest vegetation. Forests acts as a sink for greenhouse gases and help in mitigating the effects of climate change. However, forest ecosystem and biodiversity is also affected by changing climatic conditions. These changes in the forests question the degree to which the forests will be able continue sequestering greenhouse gases in the future. Ecosystem and climate models suggest that climate change wi...
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