CLIMATE CHANGE & FORESTS

Climate Change & Forests

Effects of climate changes on competitive woodland species

Introduction

Life is beautiful! It is the privilege right of an individual to enjoy each and every pleasure that is offered by life and this beautiful world. But unfortunately, there are certain factors that are prevalent in our world that nullifies and affects the beauty of the world and hence affects our lives. Such factors include global warming, pollution, endangered species and many other factors. When God has given us such a miraculous world then it is our responsibility to take care of this world rather than destroying this world. There are different individuals, agencies, organizations, institutes and NGO's that work hard and make efforts to make the environment of our world better. Besides that there are several other ways in which we can improve the environment of this world and make this world a beautiful place to live. The aim and objective of this paper is to talk about the changes in the climate and its impact on woodland species. This paper particularly talks about the changes of the climate and its impact on the Bracken. For the purpose of this assignment six articles are selected and their critical evaluation is presented in the following part of the paper.

Selected Articles

The articles that are selected for this paper are as follows:

The first article that is elected for this paper is titles as “Effects of Climate Change on Phenology, Frost Damage, and Floral Abundance of Montane Wildflowers”. The article is written by David W. Inouye. This article was published by University of Maryland United States of America in the year 2007.

The second article that is selected for this paper is titled as “Modeling the Effects of Patch Size on Vegetation Dynamics: Bracken”. This study is performed by Colin P. D. Birch, Nicolas Vuichard and Ben R. Werkman. This research was published by Macaulay Land Use Research Institute. This was published in the year 1999.

The third article that is selected for this study is titled as “Bracken Distribution in Great Britain: Strategies for its Control and the Sustainable Management of Marginal Land”. The study was undertaken by Robin, J. Pakeman, T. Mike, G. and Rob, H. The study was published by University of Liverpool. The study was published in October 1999.

The fourth article that is selected for this paper is titled as “Climate change: impacts and

Adaptation in England's woodlands”. The article is the written by Duncan Ray, James Morison and Mark Broadmeadow. This article was published by the Forestry Commission. This article was published in the year of 2010.

The second last article for this assignment is titled as “Climate Change and British Woodland”. This article is written by Mark Broadmeadow and Duncan Ray. Just like the previous study. This study is also published by Forestry Commission. This article was published in the year of 2005.

The last article is titled as “The Climate Change Challenge for British Woodland”. This article is published by Halcrow Group ...