Climate Change and its Impact on Forest Biodiversity

Abstract

Climate change is a phenomenon of completing over time scale of hundred , thousands and millions of years. The features like increased flooding , landslide and storm damage , increased death from heat strokes , failure of traditional agricultural system through drought are all scenarios , which could be due to climate change. Global warming may also have serious implications for forest ecosystems , especially for plantations and the matching of tree species with sites , which may be affected by changed climatic conditions. Forests play an important role in sequestration of carbon globally. The study of potential impact of climate change on existing forest ecosystem is inevitably required for the further mitigation to the problem. The present paper examines the impact of global climate change on forest biodiversity.