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and water balance studies conducted in the Amazon or else-where using eddy correlation equipment (see Shuttleworth et al. 1984). These shortcomings and the lack of a review on the progress in modeling the climatic consequences of large scale deforestation indicate that this second edition (1987) does not represent a substantial advance on the first edition, published in 1974.

In summary, the book contains some interesting information on forest structure and management practices that could all have been condensed into a useful short book with a more precise title. The rest of the book's discussion on the biology, meteorology and physics of the biome is much weaker—the reader is referred to the heterogeneous but comprehensive col-lection of contributed papers edited by Dickinson (1987) for a more rigorous treatment of these aspects.—Piers Sellers Piers Sellers is affiliated with the Department of Meteorology at the University of Maryland.

References Dickinson, R. E., 1987. The Geophysiology of the Amazon. Wiley and

Sons, New York. Shuttleworth, J. W., et al. 1984a. Eddy Correlation of Energy Partition

for Amazonian Forest. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 110: 1143-1162. Shuttleworth, J. W., et al. 1984b. Observations of Radiation Exchange

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