Hello Peter & Duane
Have you noticed any change in the microclimate at Tarwyn Park?
I saw an article on landline last year about a fellow in the western district of Victoria who had planted hundreds & hundreds of trees over the last 30-40 years. He was saying that there was a change in the microclimate compared with the neighbouring properties.
Cheers
Col.
Microclimate
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There have been major changes in the microclimate at both Baramul and Tarwyn Park.
The first most noticeable has been the increase in the number of days which recieve dew. This is a major feature of of landscapes with a high watertable and dense vegetative cover. Water loss is via evapotranspiration and this water loss returns as dew....this is the short water cycle often dismissed and forgotten but essential to proper landscape management.
The second change is a decrease in the amount of water lost as evaporation. A green permanent vegetative cover stops soils from drying out and in a floodplain situation acts as a grass covered dam.
These cooler landscapes also allow for greater biodiversity increasing the biota of invertebrates and vertebrates feeding on them. Huge quantities of insects occur and correspondingly high numbers of birds and amphibians.
The first most noticeable has been the increase in the number of days which recieve dew. This is a major feature of of landscapes with a high watertable and dense vegetative cover. Water loss is via evapotranspiration and this water loss returns as dew....this is the short water cycle often dismissed and forgotten but essential to proper landscape management.
The second change is a decrease in the amount of water lost as evaporation. A green permanent vegetative cover stops soils from drying out and in a floodplain situation acts as a grass covered dam.
These cooler landscapes also allow for greater biodiversity increasing the biota of invertebrates and vertebrates feeding on them. Huge quantities of insects occur and correspondingly high numbers of birds and amphibians.