Acclimation to light in seedlings of Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl. and Quercus pyrenaica Willd. planted along a forest-edge gradient

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-54

  Rodriguez Calcerrada J ^a   Pardos, J A ^a   Gil, L ^a   Aranda, I ^b  

^a Technical University of Madrid   (Spain)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a fluorescence curves; Light gradients; Photosynthetic acclimation; Quercus petraea; Quercus pyrenaica

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHLOROPHYLL A FLUORESCENCE CURVES; LIGHT GRADIENTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACCLIMATION;

SEED;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS PYRENAICA; SEEDLINGS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS PYRENAICA;

EID: 33845731300     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-006-0095-x     Document Type: Article

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