Clouds and cloud immersion alter photosynthetic light quality in a temperate mountain cloud forest

Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 462-470

  Reinhardt, Keith ^a   Smith, William K ^a   Carter, Gregory A ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse light; Southern appalachians; Spectroradiometry

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD FOREST; DIFFUSIVITY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT QUALITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIOMETER; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953515740     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B10-008     Document Type: Article

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