Climbing plants in a temperate rainforest understorey: Searching for high light or coping with deep shade?

Annals of Botany

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-239

  Valladares, Fernando ^a,b   Gianoli, Ernesto ^c,d,e   Saldaña, Alfredo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

3 D canopy architecture modelling; Boquila trifoliolata; Cissus striata; climbing plants; Elytropus chilensis; Hydrangea serratifolia; Light capture efficiency; Luzuriaga polyphylla; Luzuriaga radicans; Mitraria coccinea; shade tolerance; temperate evergreen rainforest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LEAF AREA; LIFE CYCLE; LIGHT EFFECT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAINFOREST; SHADE TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNDERSTORY; VINE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILE; CISSUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDRANGEA; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SUNLIGHT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; CISSUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; HYDRANGEA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS; SUNLIGHT;

BOQUILA TRIFOLIOLATA; CISSUS STRIATA; HYDRANGEA; LUZURIAGA POLYPHYLLA; LUZURIAGA RADICANS; MITRARIA COCCINEA;

EID: 79961098004     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr132     Document Type: Article

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