Climate change continues to degrade forests by reducing resilience to pests and diseases, increasing species invasion, facilitating pathogen spread  and intensifying fire risk and potential dieback . Drought, temperature increases and forest fragmentation interact to increase the prevalence of fires in tropical forests . Warming increases water stress in trees  and, together with forest fragmentation, dramatically increases the desiccation of forest canopies-resulting in deforestation that then leads to even hotter and drier regional climates . Warming and drought increase the invasion of grasses into forest edges and increase fire risk  . Droughts and fires additively increase mortality and, consequently, reduce canopy cover and above-ground biomass  .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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