Temporal variations in the understorey photosynthetic photon flux density of a deciduous stand: The effects of canopy development, solar elevation, and sky conditions

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-40

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deciduous forest; Light penetration; Phenology; Photon flux density; Sun angle; Temporal light variability

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNDERSTORY;

CANADA;

EID: 0035814590     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(00)00174-X     Document Type: Article

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