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PENMAN1 has concluded from a physical analysis of the process of evaporation that the rate of evapo-transpiration is the same for different crops exposed to the same weather provided that each crop covers the ground completely and is approximately of the same colour. Rider2, however, has concluded from microclimatic measurements made above extensive areas of different crops that these can so modify the effective weather that large differences in the water loss from different crops can occur.
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STANHILL, G. Evapo-transpiration from Different Crops exposed to the Same Weather. Nature 182, 125 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182125a0
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