Climate Change In Australia's Rainforest Essay

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Climate change is a threat to Australia's natural forests. In some climate zones specific climate changes has evolved, costing the ability of Australia’s ecosystem to adapt to different conditions(Saul, B., Sherwood, S., McAdam, J., Stephens, T., and Slezak, J. 2012). In most cases, some forests in Australia may tolerate the rise of temperatures, but everything has a limit, and the health of the forests might fail due to the rapid advance of the temperature. Although in some cases other trees may grow faster due to the rising carbon dioxide, those trees that are already adapted to the warmer climate and that needs less water to grow. This will effect the smaller regions with low soil fertility and their main growth factor is the soil nutrients

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