The effect of tree height and light availability on photosynthetic leaf traits of four neotropical species differing in shade tolerance

By T. Rijkers, T. Pons, Frans Bongers. 2000

224 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. U. Niinemets
2. Hendrik Poorter
3. I. Aranda
4. C. Körner
5. John R. Evans
6. Kathy Steppe
7. R. Teskey
8. Frans Bongers

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. U. Niinemets
2. Hendrik Poorter
3. F. Sterck
4. Frans Bongers
5. R. Teskey
6. Kathy Steppe
7. C. Körner
8. L. Gil

In Plant Science

1. U. Niinemets
2. C. Körner
3. Hendrik Poorter
4. I. Aranda
5. John R. Evans
6. Kathy Steppe
7. R. Teskey
8. Frans Bongers

Citations in the corpus

• Hydraulic and environmental limitations to leaf water relations in trees with respect to canopy position (2006, background): “Both stomatal conductance and light-saturated photosynthetic capacity exhibit a declining trend with decreasing light availability toward the base of the canopy (Bond et al., 1999; Rijkers et al., 2000), and it is generally accepted that branch and foliage growth at the base of the crown is limited ”
• Is it boring to be a tree? Construction costs, chemical composition and payback time of high and low irradiance leaves (2005, methodology): “More details are given in Rijkers et al. (2000) and Bongers et al. (2001).”
• A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance (2010, background): “For light harvesting, it is significant that leaf dry mass per unit area increases with increasing plant age in herbaceous perennials (Niinemets 2004, 2005) and with increasing plant age and size in woody shrubs and trees (Claveau et al. 2005; Day et al. 2001; Greenwood et al. 2009; Niinemets 2002, ”
• Anatomical basis of the change in leaf mass per area and nitrogen investment with relative irradiance within the canopy of eight temperate tree species (2004, background): “, 2000) and sapling size (Rijkers et al., 2000), leaves of mature trees frequently show higher plasticity than leaves at the seedling stage when they are exposed to irradiance changes (Hoflacher and Bauer, 1982).”
• Tree Size- and Age-Related Changes in Leaf Physiology and Their Influence on Carbon Gain (2011, background): “Acer mono (Nabeshima & Hiura 2008) Acer amoenum (Nabeshima & Hiura 2008) Acer japonicum (Nabeshima & Hiura 2008) Quercus faginea (Juarez-Lopez et al. 2008) Quercus ilex (Juarez-Lopez et al. 2008) Eucalyptus regnans (England & Attiwill 2006) 4 tropical species (Kenzo et al. 2006) 4 tropical species (”
• Crown development in tropical rain forest trees: patterns with tree height and light availability (2001, background): “Specific leaf area (a leaf area trait) is negatively related to both tree height and light availability in Dicorynia, but only to their interaction in Vouacapoua, similar to patterns observed for other species (Jurik 1986; Oberbauer & Strain 1986; Poorter et al. 1995; Rijkers et al. 2000).”
• Optimisation of photosynthetic carbon gain and within-canopy gradients of associated foliar traits for Amazon forest trees (2010, background): “…with an associated high tree-to-tree variation (Fyllas et al., 2009), some of which can be related to asymptotic tree height (Lloyd et al., 1995; Thomas and Bazzaz, 1999; Rijkers et al., 2000), successional status (Popma et al., 1992; Reich et al., 1995) and/or shade tolerance (Turner, 2001).”