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Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity Resources, Especially Forests and Wildlife Distribution

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Climate change refers to significant changes in weather as a result of natural and anthropogenic factors with direct or indirect impacts on forest vegetation structure and wildlife distribution. This is the significant environmental challenge in the current scenario that poses serious threats to biodiversity, particularly forests and wildlife resources. Wildlife is interrelated with weather conditions that affect the distribution of vegetation and the shape of habitat that supports the broad range of wildlife species. Climate change negatively affects forestry ecosystem functions by affecting productivity, biomass, and trophic interactions. It intensifies the natural balance of flora composition and vegetation structure, which ultimately affects the distribution of home ranges and habitat use of wildlife species. Wildlife is susceptible to climatic factors, such as temperature, evapotranspiration, light intensity, and relative humidity. Falling and rising temperatures affect forest plant growth, flowering, and fruiting seasons. Vegetation alteration influences the distribution and behavior of wildlife species, such as migration, reproduction cycle, forging, habitat selection, reproductive success, and nesting activities of wildlife species. Therefore, determining the impacts of climate change on forests and wildlife resources is of paramount importance since it provides insight into how these various factors affect biodiversity resources. In addition, it will assist in formulating an appropriate strategy for the management and conservation of forest and wildlife resources.

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Rajpar, M.N., Baig, M.B., Behnassi, M., Reed, M.R. (2022). Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity Resources, Especially Forests and Wildlife Distribution. In: Behnassi, M., Gupta, H., Barjees Baig, M., Noorka, I.R. (eds) The Food Security, Biodiversity, and Climate Nexus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12586-7_4

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