BIOL 2227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Richard Levins, Microclimate, Regional Climate Levels In Viticulture
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Temperature- is a measure of the average kinetic energy or energy of motion, of the molecules. Heat- the kinetic energy in a mass of a substance is generally referred to as heat energy. Environmental temperatures are important to organism, including humans, is a consequence of temperature"s influences on rates of chemical reactions, including those reactions that control life"s essential processes, for example, photosynthesis and respiration. All organisms are best adapted to fairly narrow range of temperatures. Macroclimates interact with the local landscape to produce microclimatic variation in temperature. Macroclimate- is what weather stations report and what we represented with climate diagrams. (large scale variation) Microclimates- is climatic variation on a scale of a few kilometers, meters, or even centimeters usually measured over short periods of time. Microclimate is influenced by landscape features such as altitude, aspect, vegetation, color of the ground and presence of builders.
