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- Title
BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS DURING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN (PROVINCE OF ÖLAND) ON 30TH JUNE 1954.
- Authors
Kullenberg, Bertil
- Abstract
The article presents information on biological observations during the solar eclipse in southern Sweden on June 30, 1954. The author made some observations on the behaviour of animals and changes in certain environmental factors. The locality was in Torslunda parish in central Oland, a pasture with short dry-meadow vegetation. The cloudy cold weather damped the dramatic nature of the period of totality, and made observation of its duration difficult. Birds and insects were also influenced by the circumstance that the clouds became thicker about the time of the culmination, and did not subsequently become thinner while the eclipse lasted. Song activity was not particularly pronounced when the observations commenced, owing to the unfavourable weather--thickening cloud cover, falling temperature. The somewhat warmer and less clouded weather conditions during the morning are reflected in the temperatures from 5 and 10 mm and the radiation thermometers during the first half of the observation period, whereas the 50 mm and 1000 mm temperatures were low from the beginning.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; SOLAR eclipses; ANIMAL behavior; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL testing
- Publication
Oikos, 1955, Vol 6, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3564824