The development of microclimate modification patterns: Monocropping

Abstract

We deal here with the strategic use of climate information in the adoption of microclimate modification techniques in monocropping (e.g. Barfield and Gerber 1979). This is about decreasing or increasing the exposure of surfaces, either the actual soil surface or the more composite surfaces including above surface living and dead material, to radiation, precipitation and wind and/or changing the original properties of (composite) surfaces, resulting in an alteration of the impact of these large scale weather elements (Stigter and Darnhofer 1989). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.