FHU 3209: AGROFORESTRY FHU 3209: AGROFORESTRY | Page 9

INTRODUCTION

Trees have many roles such as essential environmental services, sustainable land management, carbon sequestration, mitigation of climate change and local economic development. Trees also can influence the microclimate by transpiration. Transpiration can cooling air temperature and increase the humidity. Trees also provide shade and this can cool the environment. The trees also can convert the atmospheric gas into usable compound such as ammonia and this is called as nitrogen fixing trees.

For this practical, on 14th March 2018, we measure the air temperature, wind speed, relative humidity and solar radiation at Faculty of Forestry that can give impact to the microclimate and agroforestry. By doing this practical, we can adapt the application of the microclimate measurement to agroforestry landscape.