Rapid assessment of understory light availability in a wet tropical forest

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 177-185

  Capers, Robert S ^a,b   Chazdon, Robin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse radiation; PAR; Photon flux density; Rain forest; Red:far red ratio; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RAINFOREST; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 2442464729     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2003.12.009     Document Type: Article

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