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Default Isn't terroir a celebration of differences and a glorification of nurture over nature?

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:47:01 -0400, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

>I'm not sure what is the difference between mesoclimate and
>microclimate unless it's a different scale of things.


It is.

Microclimate is at a scale of a few meters and less. Varations row to
row, and within the canopy - again according to the Oxford Companion.
I am not really sure how well accepted these definitions are, so I am
not particularly arguing for them. But that is why I was preferring
mesoclimate to microclimate.

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