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Fig. 1. Changes in length of the growing season (A) and the polar summer (B) as a function of latitude, calculated from equations describing sun–earth geometry (Monteith and Unsworth, 1990). Broken lines indicate the growing season and polar summer lengths at 65°N, with solid lines indicating the situation 15° closer to the pole at 80°N.
