This volume contains reviews on five different aspects of
bioclimatology: (1) The establishment, maintenance and use of data
from automatic weather station networks for agricultural purposes;
(2) Techniques for estimating global and ultraviolet irradiance at
the earth's surface, and the net radiation balance from
operational satellite observations; (3) Mathematical models of the
effects of climate on energy and mass balance in crop production;
(4) Paleoecological and experimental studies of the response of
stomatal density to changes in the atmospheric CO2 concentrations;
and (5) The sensory and behavioral responses of insects and other
invertebrates to small CO2 gradients resulting from plant and
animal metabolism, considering the global changes in CO2
concentration and air temperature.
