Effects of light environment and successional status on lightfleck use by understory trees of temperate and tropical forests

Tree Physiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 69-80

  Küppers, Manfred ^a,b   Timm, Hans ^a   Orth, Frank ^a   Stegemann, Jens ^a   Stöber, Robert ^a   Schneider, Hans ^a   Paliwal, Kailash ^c   Karunaichamy, K S T K ^c   Ortiz, Rodolfo ^d  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

CO2 assimilation; Costa Rica; European beech forest; Forest gap; India; Photosynthetic induction; Successional position; Sunfleck; Tropical rain forest; Understory; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 3342930722     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/16.1-2.69     Document Type: Article

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