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ON May 15 last, a joint meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society and the British Ecological Society was held in the rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, at which a series of papers on the relation of ecology to climate was read. The importance of a proper understanding of climatic factors fpr the elucidation of many ecological problems needs no stressing: nor does the inadequacy of the climatological data usually available at present, particularly when information is needed with regard either to local climates as determined by topographical variations, or micro-climates arising within particular types of vegetation. This meeting was organised as a means of bringing meteorologists and ecologists into closer touch with each other and with problems which have aspects of interest to each and which cannot be solved satisfactorily without their co-operation.
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DAY, W. ECOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF CLIMATE. Nature 157, 827–829 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157827a0
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