Open AccessAtmospheric variables as driving variables of agricultural and forest ecosystems
Author(s) -
Luigi Mariani,
O. Failla
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
italian journal of agronomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.509
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2039-6805
pISSN - 1125-4718
DOI - 10.4081/ija.2008.1s.9
Subject(s) - ecosystem , rationality , premise , forest ecology , environmental science , agriculture , environmental resource management , productivity , ecology , economics , biology , linguistics , philosophy , macroeconomics , political science , law
Atmospheric variables, which represent meteorology if seen in their instantaneous behavior or climatology if seen in their long time behavior, can be considered among the main driving variables of agricultural and forest ecosystems. In other words meteo-climatic variables determine productivity and quality and territorial specificity of agroforestry productions. On the base of this premise some significant examples are shown in order to describe how different modeling approaches (empirical and mechanistic) can improve our degree of description of phenomena and the rationality of our approach to management of agro-ecosystem. The need of strict linkage among agrometeorology and other physical and biological sciences referred to agro-forestry ecosystems is also discussed