Climate and Agriculture: An Ecological Survey

Climate and Agriculture was written to show the inadequacies of many traditional concepts, to stimulate further research, and to help bridge the gaps between theory and application and between the physical and agricultural sciences. It succeeds remarkably well in achieving these objectives. It deserves a place in the libraries not only of agricultural climatologists but also of agricultural geographers, for its clear explanation of crop responses to the microclimate, and of remote-sensing specialists, for its analyses of the complex, but fundamental, interrelationships between plants and elements in the climatic environment. The author's enthusiasm for his subject is readily transmitted to the reader. If more texts were written in this manner, teachers would have most of their task accomplished for them. Although the book contains an abundance of factual information, its ultimate value will be as a stimulus to further research, a distinction that few other textbooks can claim.

--Arthur J. Hawley, Geographical Review

Chang's experience with such climatologists as C. F. Brooks and C. W. Thornthwaite, his own research on soil temperature, evapotranspiration, and geographic-scale distributions, and his association with the advanced agriculture of Hawaii and its university have enabled him to make an important contribution toward our fuller understanding of those indispensable organisms, the domesticated plants.

--David F. Miller, Science

The chief value of Chang's book is readability, breath of coverage, critical analysis, and extensive bibliography.

--William C. Ashby, Ecology

Climate and Agriculture was written to show the inadequacies of many traditional concepts, to stimulate further research, and to help bridge the gaps between theory and application and between the physical and agricultural sciences. It succeeds remarkably well in achieving these objectives. It deserves a place in the libraries not only of agricultural climatologists but also of agricultural geographers, for its clear explanation of crop responses to the microclimate, and of remote-sensing specialists, for its analyses of the complex, but fundamental, interrelationships between plants and elements in the climatic environment. The author's enthusiasm for his subject is readily transmitted to the reader. If more texts were written in this manner, teachers would have most of their task accomplished for them. Although the book contains an abundance of factual information, its ultimate value will be as a stimulus to further research, a distinction that few other textbooks can claim.

--Arthur J. Hawley, Geographical Review

Chang's experience with such climatologists as C. F. Brooks and C. W. Thornthwaite, his own research on soil temperature, evapotranspiration, and geographic-scale distributions, and his association with the advanced agriculture of Hawaii and its university have enabled him to make an important contribution toward our fuller understanding of those indispensable organisms, the domesticated plants.

--David F. Miller, Science

The chief value of Chang's book is readability, breath of coverage, critical analysis, and extensive bibliography.

--William C. Ashby, Ecology

-Climate and Agriculture was written to show the inadequacies of many traditional concepts, to stimulate further research, and to help bridge the gaps between theory and application and between the physical and agricultural sciences. It succeeds remarkably well in achieving these objectives. It deserves a place in the libraries not only of agricultural climatologists but also of agricultural geographers, for its clear explanation of crop responses to the microclimate, and of remote-sensing specialists, for its analyses of the complex, but fundamental, interrelationships between plants and elements in the climatic environment. The author's enthusiasm for his subject is readily transmitted to the reader. If more texts were written in this manner, teachers would have most of their task accomplished for them. Although the book contains an abundance of factual information, its ultimate value will be as a stimulus to further research, a distinction that few other textbooks can claim.-

--Arthur J. Hawley, Geographical Review

-Chang's experience with such climatologists as C. F. Brooks and C. W. Thornthwaite, his own research on soil temperature, evapotranspiration, and geographic-scale distributions, and his association with the advanced agriculture of Hawaii and its university have enabled him to make an important contribution toward our fuller understanding of those indispensable organisms, the domesticated plants.-

--David F. Miller, Science

-The chief value of Chang's book is readability, breath of coverage, critical analysis, and extensive bibliography.-

--William C. Ashby, Ecology