give reasons :deforestation affect food chain in the forest,2- forest are called 'dynamic' 'living entity ',and 3-the earth's temperature will increase if forest disappear 4-forest help maintain water table (water gathered under ground )throughout the year.
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Trees have been around for more than 370 million years, and today there are about 80 thousand
species of them, occupying 3.5 billion hectares worldwide, including 250 million ha of commercial
plantations. While forests can provide tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits to
nations, they also affect the hydrologic cycle in different ways. As the demand for water grows and
local precipitation patterns change due to global warming, plantation forestry has encountered an
increasing number of water-related conflicts worldwide.
This document provides a country-by-country summary of the current state of knowledge on the
relationship between forest management and water resources. Based on available research
publications, the Editor-in-Chief of this document contacted local scientists from countries where
the impact of forest management on water resources is an issue, inviting them to submit a chapter.
Authors were instructed to use the following structure: