Leaf angle as a strategy for light competition: Optimal and evolutionarily stable light-extinction coefficient within a leaf canopy

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 501-507

  Hikosaka, Kouki ^a   Hirose, Tadaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy photosynthesis; Canopy structure; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Leaf angle; Light competition; Light extinction coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001145074     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682429     Document Type: Article

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