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This volume contains reviews on different aspects of human, animal and plant bioclimatology; the mechanisms linking human melanoma with radiation from both the sun and artificial sources; field and experimental studies on the health of farm animals in adverse climatic environments and the impact of climatic extremes on airborne disease organisms and their hosts' defense mechanisms; measurement techniques used in plant bioclimatology, including thermoelectric methods of measuring sap flow and transpiration in plants; remote sensing techniques; the use of lasers in both spectrofluorometry and the study of the geometrical structure of plant canopies; and the use of radar mounted in aircraft and satellites to monitor forest size and state.