Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation Cover of Yerramalais Forest

India is not only gifted with cultural diversity, geographical diversity, social diversity and climatic diversity but also adorned with biodiversity which broadly include plant biodiversity. Forests play a key role in maintaining a wide range of delicate relationships with nature and its eco-systems. Yerramalais forest is home to many endemic, endangered and threatened species, as well as to the indigenous people, who are dependent on its biological resources. Most of the world's forests especially the temperate and boreal forests, are already being utilized by human societies. Effect of anthropogenic activities not only threatens the biodiversity, but also affects the socio-economic condition of the indigenous people of the forest. Various activities like habitat loss, deforestation, clear felling and overexploitation amplify the impact of climate change on biodiversity. In recent years, attention has focused on the possible impact of atmospheric and climatic changes on plants and vegetation. Much uncertainty still exists as to the possible effects of such change on ecosystems and soils in the Yerramalais forest, which could have severe biological and economic consequences.