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Impacts of Canopy Internal Gradients on Carbon and Water Exchange of Beech and Oak Trees

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Biogeochemistry of Forested Catchments in a Changing Environment

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 172))

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Identifying the relevance of forest structure for stand photosynthesis and transpiration is one of the remaining challenges in plant physiological ecology. While leaves and their stomata are the causal agents of stand transpiration and canopy conductance, and their position and orientation are known to be decisive for their gas-exchange contribution, the spatial distribution pattern of leaves inside a forest cannot yet be considered in stand gas-exchange models. Canopy conductance of a mature tree is created by the conductances of about 1011 stomata (Larcher 2001; Fleck 2002, p. 49) which act depending on their local micrometeorological conditions (light, humidity). A process-oriented representation of forest canopy structures in stand gas-exchange models is, thus, still hindered by the enormous complexity of canopies, which makes it nearly impossible to assess and model them in detail.

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Fleck, S., Schmidt, M., Köstner, B., Faltin, W., Tenhunen, J.D. (2004). Impacts of Canopy Internal Gradients on Carbon and Water Exchange of Beech and Oak Trees. In: Matzner, E. (eds) Biogeochemistry of Forested Catchments in a Changing Environment. Ecological Studies, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06073-5_6

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