Climate change is one of the world's greatest challenges and creates effects on forest ecosystem. Forest ecosystems are sensitive to climate thus; climate change has significant effects on species distributions, the growth rate and structure of forests. Changes in climate are strongly affect forest ecosystem by altering the growth, mortality and reproduction of trees. Increasing temperatures changes the timing of life cycle events (phenology), with earlier bud burst, leafing and flowering in trees. This review focuses on the effect of climate change on forest ecosystems. Climate change alters and shifts forest ecosystems both directly and indirectly. Warming temperature directly affects rate of plant photosynthesis and respiration processes, also indirectly by increasing the risk of infestation. Climate change can modify disturbance regimes that affect the carbon cycle, forest structure, species composition, and alter forest ecosystem function. Disturbances such as fire, species invasions, insect and disease outbreaks are disrupting the structure, composition and function of forest ecosystem. Fire effect on forest ecosystem includes; disturbance of wild life habitat, acceleration of nutrient cycling, and mortality of individual trees. The frequency, size, intensity, seasonality, and type of fires depend on the amount and frequency of precipitation in addition to forest structure and composition. Many pests and pathogens will reproduce more quickly, expand their ranges and invade new regions under warmer, wetter, or carbon dioxide enriched conditions. Increasing temperature has an effect on nutrient availability in the soil through the stimulation of organic matter decomposition and mineralization of soil nutrients.