On the angular dependency of canopy gap fractions in pine, spruce and birch stands

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 206, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-3

  Rautiainen, Miina ^a   Stenberg, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Beer's law; Boreal; Clumping; Coniferous; G function; LAI 2000

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY GAP; CONIFEROUS TREE; GAP DYNAMICS; LEAF AREA INDEX; ZENITH ANGLE;

FINLAND;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84924292541     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.018     Document Type: Article

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