Global Climate Change
Global climate change caused by anthropogenic increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will most likely reverse the expansion of tropical rainforest in NKMNP. This process will cause mature trees of considerable size to have an increased mortality, creating more gaps within the forest and making the rain forest more vulnerable to the effects of increasing droughts. A drier rainforest also leads to an increase in fire frequency, allowing for an ecological shift of rainforest to dry forest. Many of the rainforest species may as a consequence, become extinct in NKMNP within the next 100 years, following the predictions made by GCC models. Furthermore, movements of birds and rainforest species northward towards the Amazon would be greatly limited due to loss of forest within the park.
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