Light interception in species with different functional groups coexisting in moorland plant communities

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 591-599

  Kamiyama, Chiho ^a   Oikawa, Shimpei ^b   Kubo, Takuya ^c   Hikosaka, Kouki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Canopy structure; Leaf angle; Life form; Light partitioning

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COEXISTENCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; LEAF; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MOORLAND; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHOTON; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; WETLAND;

ECOSYSTEM; PHOTONS; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUNLIGHT; WETLANDS;

EID: 77958021124     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1674-5     Document Type: Article

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