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Leaf to Landscape

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Photosynthetic Adaptation

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 178))

Abstract

Temporal dynamics and structural complexity of plant canopies strongly affect light harvesting, generating variable spatio-temporal distributions of the irradiance on leaf area (Baldocchi and Collineau 1994). Leaf light interception scales linearly with incident irradiance, but plant photosynthesis and photomorphogenesis typically exhibit a saturating response to light. Because of the inherent nonlinearity in light responses, estimates of the photosynthetic rate at canopy scale cannot be obtained from mean irradiance values, but require a full description of the radiative field. This means that scaling of light harvesting from leaf to landscape is a central issue for the prediction and understanding of plant canopy processes (Asner and Wessman 1997). Because of the strong linkage between photosynthesis and plant water use, canopy radiative field is not only relevant for primary plant productivity, but also for the partitioning of ecosystem energy fluxes between sensible and latent heat. Thus, architecture of plant stands and resulting light environment exert a major control over the meteorology of plant communities (Baldocchi and Harley 1995, Lai et al. 2000).

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Cescatti, A., Niinemets, Ü. (2004). Leaf to Landscape. In: Smith, W.K., Vogelmann, T.C., Critchley, C. (eds) Photosynthetic Adaptation. Ecological Studies, vol 178. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27267-4_3

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