Warmer air can hold more moisture, and the air ends up sucking it out of plants, trees,
dead vegetation on the ground, and soil.
Not exact matches
Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being
on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and
dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.
They then selectively removed different plant species such as heather, cotton grass and moss enabling them to study the effects of both warming and
vegetation change
on carbon release from the
dead plant material into the atmosphere.