The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) defines nursing diagnosis as a clinical judgment about individual, community or family responses to community to actual or potential health problems or life processes. All types of diagnoses are similar.
Effects. All of these activities contribute to the major deforestation we are seeing now, and this destruction is hugely detrimental to the environment. Drought. One effect of the clearing is drought. The rainforest produces half of its own rainfall as the trees release moisture into the atmosphere. As trees disappear, so does this rain, causing the remaining trees to dry up and die. The drought can also lead to wildfires, which destroy even more of rainforest.
Written by Sabrina Kleinman, University of Arizona. While the majority of climate change impacts on forests focus on tree health, soil impacts should not be overlooked. A changing climate can impact nutrient cycling, ecosystem respiration, and the storage of carbon in forests.