Comparison of various methods for estimating the mean growing season percent photosynthetic photon flux density in forests

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-70

  Gendron, Fidji ^a   Messier, Christian ^a   Comeau, Phil G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hemispherical photographs; LAI 2000; Light environments; Light sensor; Light transmission; Photodiodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032503844     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(98)00082-3     Document Type: Article

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