Acclimation of photosynthetic capacity to irradiance in tree canopies in relation to leaf nitrogen concentration and leaf mass per unit area

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 343-357

  Meir, P ^a   Kruijt, B ^a,b   Broadmeadow, M ^c   Barbosa, E ^d   Kull, O ^e   Carswell, F ^a,f   Nobre, A ^d   Jarvis, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e Department of Northeast Estonia   (Estonia)

^f Landcare   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Beech; Birch; Canopy photosynthesis model; Leaf mass per unit area; Leaf nitrogen; Oak; Photosynthetic capacity; Sitka spruce; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

FOREST CANOPY; IRRADIANCE; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAINFOREST;

BETULA; BETULA PENDULA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 0036197869     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0016-8025.2001.00811.x     Document Type: Article

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