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leafarea; leafarea index, etc ; environment; fruits; grapes; leaves; models; pesticides; plant protection; sprayers; trees; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Authorities around the world have committed to limiting the use of chemical pesticides by reducing doses, among other strategies. Nevertheless, different dose expression models and decision support systems (DSSs) for dose adjustment coexist for high growing crops (3D crops). Among them, leaf wall area (LWA) and tree row volume (TRV) models have recently been proposed by the European and Mediterran ...
leafarea; leafarea index, etc ; agriculture; cameras; canopy; electronics; greenhouses; image analysis; plant health; tomatoes; Show all 10 Subjects
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... This paper presents a financially viable and non-destructive rail-based video monitoring method that utilizes optical image segmentation to estimate the canopy leaf area index (LAI) of greenhouse tomato plants. The LAI is directly related to the time-dependent crop growth and indicates plant health and potential crop yields. A rail-guided mobile camera system was commissioned that records continuo ...
... The amount of PM bound by tree canopies depends on leaf traits, but also the leaf area available, both of which are dependent on tree identity. We investigated four species (Acer platanoides L., Tilia cordata Mill., Quercus robur L., Carpinus betulus L.) grown in monocultures and in two and four species polycultures. The amount of PM on the leaves of these species was determined by washing and fra ...
László Erdős; Ákos Bede-Fazekas; Zoltán Bátori; Christian Berg; György Kröel-Dulay; Martin Magnes; Philipp Sengl; Csaba Tölgyesi; Péter Török; Jack Zinnen
leafarea; specific leafarea, etc ; dry matter content; habitat destruction; humans; indigenous species; introduced species; simple leaves; vegetation; Europe; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Naturalness and hemeroby indicator values are specialized species-based indicators used in Continental Europe that reflect plant species’ affinity to degraded habitats. Despite their potential utility for basic and applied science, their similarities have gone unnoticed, and they have yet to be studied together. Here, we combine literature review and novel data analyses to ask 1) How are the natur ...
leafarea; specific leafarea, etc ; Ginkgo biloba; Pinus strobus; adsorption; carboxylation; human health; humans; particulates; photosynthesis; transportation; trees; urban forestry; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) is emerging as a serious environmental problem worldwide with the increase in anthropogenic emission sources, such as fossil fuels, transportation, and industries. In urban areas, where industrial complexes and human activities are concentrated, PM₂.₅ poses a threat to human health. Recently, because of their ability to reduce PM₂.₅, the introduction of landscaping ...
leafarea; specific leafarea, etc ; chlorophyll; covariance; edge effects; global change; lakes; leaf dry matter content; leaves; microclimate; tropical forests; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Altered microclimatic conditions and higher disturbance at forest edges create environmental stress and modify resource gradients from edge to interior, changing the selection pressures acting on individuals. Although community‐weighted trait‐mean (CWM) shifts along edge gradients have been widely documented at the species level, it is unclear how edge effects act at the individual level, and whet ...
leafarea; specific leafarea, etc ; Ageratina adenophora; evolutionary adaptation; habitats; invasive species; leaves; phenotypic plasticity; regression analysis; reproductive performance; Himalayan region; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Elevational gradients as well as habitat variability provide variation in environmental conditions enabling plants to alter their functional traits with respect to their surroundings on the way to sustain and better perform. Phenotypic plasticity has been suggested as one of the foremost mechanisms that invasive species implement to endure and invade wide geographical areas. The present study was ...
leafarea; leafarea index, etc ; canopy; carbon sequestration; census data; community structure; equations; lidar; overstory; species diversity; tropical forests; understory; China; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Positive relationships between structural diversity and forest productivity have been documented in controlled experiments and early secondary forests, however, negative relationships have also been observed in late successional forests. The mechanisms causing observed relationships between structural diversity and productivity are not well‐established, but complementarity among crowns and asymmet ...
leafarea; leafarea index, etc ; Populus; biomass production; cluster analysis; forestry; fuel production; leaves; phenotype; proleptic shoots; research; scanners; tree crown; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Branch phenotypic traits determine tree crown architecture, which in turn governs leaf display, light interception, and biomass production. Sylleptic and proleptic branches are the obviously different branch phenotypes in the poplar crown. Many studies have focused on the influence of sylleptic branch numbers (SBN) on biomass production, but the research on the influence of proleptic branch phenot ...
leafarea index, etc ; Landsat; evapotranspiration; vegetation; South Africa; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key parameter used to characterize vegetation biophysical properties and plays an important regulatory role in terrestrial-atmospheric exchanges. Subsequently, LAI is often a critical data input to various evapotranspiration, hydrological and climatic models. While LAI data can generally be easily obtained, it is seldom available at spatio-temporal scales that can be use ...
specific leafarea, etc ; climate; forests; species abundance; China; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Specific leaf area (SLA), an important functional trait, reflects the abilities of light capture and adaption to environments of plants. Earlier spatiotemporal changes in SLA at the species level have been widely studied. However, changes at the community level, especially those associated with species abundance and coverage, remain poorly being understood. Using the community data of SLA, which b ...
leafarea; specific leafarea, etc ; carbon; drought; global change; interspecific variation; intraspecific variation; leaf dry matter content; leaves; meadows; nitrogen; nitrogen content; plant height; steppes; Show all 14 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Inter- and intraspecific variation in plant traits play an important role in grassland community assembly under global change scenarios. However, explorations of how these variations contribute to the responses of community traits to nitrogen (N) addition and drought in different grassland types are lacking. We measured the plant height, leaf area (LA), specific leaf area (SLA), leaf d ...
leafarea; leafarea index, etc ; Malus domestica; Pyrus communis; apples; canopy; evaporative demand; evapotranspiration; forests; humidity; meteorology; models; pears; phenology; regression analysis; sap flow; transpiration; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Transpiration is a fundamental biophysical process, directly measured in plants by dividing sap flow by total leaf area. Under non-limiting conditions, transpiration and reference evapotranspiration (ETₒ) are hypothesized to be equal when ETₒ is normalized by the leaf area index of the reference crop, i.e., LAI = 2.88. Known as the E₂.₈₈ model, it has only been tested with ETₒ derived from Penman- ...
... Tropospheric ozone threatens crop production in many parts of the world, especially in highly populated countries in economic transition. Crop models suggest substantial global yield losses for wheat, but typically such models fail to address differences in ozone responses between tolerant and sensitive genotypes. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify physiological traits contributi ...
Christian Rixen; Sonja Wipf; Sabine B. Rumpf; Justyna Giejsztowt; Jules Millen; John W. Morgan; Adrienne B. Nicotra; Susanna Venn; Shengwei Zong; Katharine J. M. Dickinson; Grégoire T. Freschet; Claudia Kurzböck; Jin Li; Hongli Pan; Beat Pfund; Elena Quaglia; Xu Su; Wei Wang; Xiangtao Wang; Hang Yin; Julie R. Deslippe
specific leafarea, etc ; alpine plants; anatomy and morphology; climate; ecology; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Climate warming is shifting the distributions of mountain plant species to higher elevations. Cold‐adapted plant species are under increasing pressure from novel competitors that are encroaching from lower elevations. Plant capacity to adjust to these pressures may be measurable as variation in trait values within a species. In particular, the strength and patterns of intraspecific trait variation ...
leafarea; leafarea index, etc ; Medicago sativa; Zea mays; alfalfa; canopy; carbon; carbon dioxide; corn; eddy covariance; hydrology; models; photosynthesis; stomatal conductance; temperature; water use efficiency; water vapor; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Globally, maize (Zea mays, a C4-plant) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa, a C3-plant) are common and economically important crops. Predicting the response of their water use efficiency, WUE, to changing hydrologic and climatic conditions is vital in helping farmers adapt to a changing climate.In this study, we assessed the effective leaf area index (eLAI - the leaf area most involved in CO₂ and H₂O exc ...
... A primary focus of rice breeding and production is the optimization of yield and quality. Currently, semi-waxy japonica rice is widely planted in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River due to its good eating quality and strong reputation among consumers. However, little information is yet available on grain yield formation and rice quality characteristics of these semi-waxy japonica ric ...
leafarea; specific leafarea, etc ; Spartina alterniflora; biosynthesis; coasts; evolution; introduced species; invasive species; latitude; leaf thickness; leaves; phenotypic plasticity; soil salinity; temperature; wetlands; China; Gulf of Mexico; Show all 17 Subjects
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... The enemy release and pre-adaptation of alien species often drive their contemporary evolution across latitudinal gradients within its invasive and native ranges. Leaf functional traits constitute an important part of plant functional traits, reflecting their resource acquisition and usage. Thus, comparing the leaf functional traits (growth and defense traits) and latitude patterns of invasive and ...
leafarea, etc ; Anthurium; commercialization; experimental design; leaves; nitrogen; plant nutrition; urea; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Anthurium maricense Nadruz & Mayo is one of the anthurium species with potential for commercialization as a foliage. The objective of this study was to evaluate the NPK rates and the frequency of nitrogen foliar fertilization for pot cultivation of Anthurium maricense. The experimental design was completely randomized, in a split-plot scheme, with 04-14-08 NPK rates applied in the substrate (0; 3; ...
leafarea index, etc ; climate; environment; evapotranspiration; grasslands; latitude; satellites; surface temperature; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Grassland vegetation greenness has been increasing globally during the past decades. Although the vegetation coverage change could have significant effects on climate by affecting albedo and evapotranspiration (ET), the effects of global grassland greening on climate remain unclear due to the lack of long-term field observation data. Here, we used satellite measurements of land surface temperature ...