Leaf area and light use efficiency patterns of Norway spruce under different thinning regimes and age classes

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 288, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-59

  Gspaltl, Martin ^a   Bauerle, William ^b   Binkley, Dan ^b   Sterba, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

APAR; Maestra; Picea abies

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; APAR; AUSTRIA; FOREST STAND; INCREASING TREES; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LEAF AREA; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MAESTRA; NORWAY SPRUCE; PER UNIT; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PICEA ABIES; PICEA ABIES (L.) KARST; RESOURCE USE; SELF-SHADING; STAND LEVELS; STAND STRUCTURES; STEM GROWTH; THINNING REGIMES; TREE SIZE; VOLUME INCREMENT;

EFFICIENCY; PLANTS (BOTANY); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FORESTRY;

AGE CLASS; ALLOMETRY; LEAF AREA; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TREE;

FORESTRY; LEAVES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PICEA ABIES; SILVICULTURE; THINNING;

AUSTRIA;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84869878953     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.11.044     Document Type: Article

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