Test of an extended mathematical approach to calculate maize leaf area index and leaf angle distribution

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-53

  Homem Antunes, Mauro A ^a   Walter Shea, Elizabeth A ^b   Mesarch, Mark A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaf angle distribution; Leaf area index; Leaf curvature; Maize

Indexed keywords

CANOPY EXCHANGE; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; NUMERICAL METHOD;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0035795790     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(01)00219-2     Document Type: Article

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