Claim · model-written summary
The hornwort occupied wet, heavily shaded sites.
- Taxon
- Megaceros pellucidusMegaceros pelluciduse0
- Outcome
- wet, heavily shaded sitese0
Verbatim
e0“The hornwort Megaceros pellucidus occupies wet, heavily shaded sites.”
Title
Light Environment and Pigment Composition of Megaceros Pellucidus
Rls Watkins; HA Outred; RE Rowland; et al. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) 2011
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Maximum site photon flux density was below 10mol m-2 s-1.
- Association Site PFD varied weakly during the day and exponentially with full sunlight PFD.
- Observation Reflected surface water light transiently doubled the midday maximum PFD.
- Observation Sunflecks had little impact on site PFD.
- Association Carotenoid content was the same under low and higher light.
- Association High-light plants had approximately twice the chlorophyll content of low-light plants.
- Association Chlorophyll a/b ratio was the same in low and high light plants.
- Observation Low-light thallus extracts had an absorbance band around 340 nm absent from high-light extracts.