Leaf photosynthetic capacity and leaf reflectance decreased with canopy depth

Claim · model-written summary

Leaf photosynthetic capacity and leaf reflectance decreased with canopy depth

Taxon

Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioidesNothofagus cliffortioidese0

Outcome

leaf photosynthetic capacity and leaf reflectance of photosynthetically active radiatione1

Direction

decreasede1

Qualifier

with depth in the canopye1

Setting

Craigieburn Range, South Island, New Zealande0

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Verbatim

e0

“The spatial and physical characteristics of foliage varied systematically with canopy height in a broad-leaved evergreen forest of Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Poole (mountain beech) in the Craigieburn Range, South Island, New Zealand”

e1

“Leaf inclination angle, leaf weight per unit area, leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf photosynthetic capacity and leaf reflectance of photosynthetically active radiation all decreased with depth in the canopy”