Floodplain forests have low resilience to repeated exposure to wildfires. As climate change increases the instances of fires, forests may transform to less productive grassland ecosystems.
Rishika Pardikar
Rishika Pardikar is a freelance science journalist. Her focus areas are climate change and wildlife. She has no formal education in either science or journalism; everything she has learned has been on the job via talking to people, reading, and traveling.
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