Journal article
Measuring leaf area index of plant canopies with branch architecture
Abstract
Radiation transmission through plant canopies is shown to be determined not only by the geometry of the foliage elements (leaves), but also by the geometry of foliage clumps. When the geometry of tree branches (thin slabs of foliage in which leaves are confined) was considered with a Poisson model, it was found that beam transmission measurements at a 62° rather than a 57.5° incident angle can provide a good estimate of the effective leaf area …
Authors
Chen JM; Black TA
Journal
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 57, No. 1-3, pp. 1–12
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
12 1991
DOI
10.1016/0168-1923(91)90074-z
ISSN
0168-1923