Canopy ergodicity: Can a single leaf represent an entire plant canopy?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 309-323

  Kikuzawa, Kihachiro ^a,b   Yagi, Makoto ^a   Ohto, Yuji ^a   Umeki, Kiyoshi ^c   Lechowicz, Martin J ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy ergodic hypothesis; Canopy photosynthesis; Space average; Time average

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEAF; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SHOOT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ALNUS; ALNUS SIEBOLDIANA; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS TUBEROSUS; JAPONICA; MALLOTUS (PLANT); POLYGONUM;

EID: 67349150061     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9486-y     Document Type: Article

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