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- Title
The Importance of Sunflecks for Forest Understory Plants.
- Authors
Chazdon, Robin L.; Pearcy, Robert W.
- Abstract
Investigates the contribution of sunflecks to the daily and seasonal light environment of forest understory plants. Factors in the occurrence of sunflecks at a particular location and the distinction between a sunfleck and a sunpatch; Consideration for characterizing sunfleck activity within a particular forest type; Importance of sunflecks in carbon gain, plant growth and reproduction.
- Subjects
EFFECT of solar radiation on plants; UNDERSTORY plants; FORESTS &; forestry; LIFE sciences
- Publication
BioScience, 1991, Vol 41, Issue 11, p760
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1311725