Light capture efficiency decreases with increasing tree age and size in the southern hemisphere gymnosperm Agathis australis

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-190

  Niinemets, Ülo ^a,b   Sparrow, Ashley ^c   Cescatti, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Leaf clumping; Leaf morphology; Light harvesting; Radiative transfer; Shoot morphology

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HARVESTING;

LEAF ARCHITECTURE; MASS PER AREA (MA); NITROGEN CONTENT; STEM LENGTH;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; DENSITY; HARVESTING; LEAVES; PRODUCTIVITY; SHOOTS; TREES;

AGATHIS AUSTRALIS; GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 14644419636     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-004-0379-y     Document Type: Article

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