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Photosynthetic Utilization of Lightflecks by Tropical Forest Plants

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Progress in Photosynthesis Research

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The light environment in forest understory habitats is highly variable because of the punctuation of the very low diffuse light background by sunflecks lasting from fractions of a second to minutes. While they may strike a leaf for only a small fraction of a day, the importance of sunflecks is underscored by field observations showing that 40 to 60% of the daily assimilation (A) may be due to them (1,2). In this study, the responses of leaves to transient light changes designed to simulate sunflecks were investigated.

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  1. Robin L. Chazdon

    Present address: Dept. of Botany, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  1. Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Robert W. Pearcy, Robin L. Chazdon & Miko U. F. Kirschbaum

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  1. Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    J. Biggins

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Pearcy, R.W., Chazdon, R.L., Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (1987). Photosynthetic Utilization of Lightflecks by Tropical Forest Plants. In: Biggins, J. (eds) Progress in Photosynthesis Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0519-6_56

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