Climate, Microclimate and Forest.

Microclimate is climate upon a small space. Thus we speak about the microclimate of the room you live in, of the classroom you study in, of the soil in your garden, the microclimate of this forest or of this or that part of the forest. The kind of forest, its life are influenced both by climate and microclimate. Various climatic zones give rise to principally different forests – the jungles in the tropics, the treeless poor vegetation in the Arctic, green varied forests of the temperate climatic zone.

Microclimate influences the forest environment within a very small area and the changes in the structure of the forest cause changes in its microclimate. For example, when   a road is built in an old or middle-aged  forest  many  trees of the dense stand are to be removed and a gap is formed.  As  the  observation shows, radical changes in the microclimate of the place  where the gap is formed in comparison with whole forest take place: thanks to the influence of  direct solar radiation, the temperature of the soil and air of the gap rises increasingly against the temperature of the soil and air of the whole forest. Changes in microclimate are in direct proportion to the width of the road and to the height of trees, and depend on the direction of the road too. The microclimate of some forest stands is less influenced by road building, of others – more. That is why all forest road buildings should be carried out cautiously.

To know the microclimate of this or that part of the area is important for cultivating crops in correct places, where they can grow and produce best.