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All right, this question talks about climate change and the fact that planting forests in a typical non -forest environment, like a grassland, a wetland or a savannah.
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It wants to know in doing that, in going from, say, a grassland to land to a forestland to a forest.
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It wants to know what kind of implication does this have on the community and the interaction of those species.
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So think about a grassland.
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What is primarily there? well, grass and you've got shrubs and maybe a few, you know, small trees.
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Okay and then when you swap over to forest this means that you're now going to have very tall dominating trees and it's going to be very dense okay and so what you're going to lose is you're going to lose the grass okay um the small trees you may lose some of those you may be able to keep some of those small trees.
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You're also going to lose a lot of those shrubs as well because they're going to be shaded by all of these new tall trees that are going to, over time, become more and more dense in that area.
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So when you see a change in the plant life in that area, that's going to have a direct impact on the animal life...