Costs versus risks: Architectural changes with changing light quantity and quality in saplings of temperate rainforest trees of different shade tolerance

Austral Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-43

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

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Elongation; Light capture; Phenotypic plasticity; Red:far red ratio; Shade avoidance; Shade tolerance; Temperate rainforest; Understorey

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIAMETER; ECOMORPHOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; IRRADIANCE; LEAF; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT QUALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RAINFOREST; SAPLING; SECONDARY FOREST; SHADE TOLERANCE; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

CHILE;

EID: 84856404669     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02245.x     Document Type: Article

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