Light regime and photosynthetic production in the canopy of a scots pine stand during a prolonged period

✍ Scribed by Pauline Oker-Blom; Seppo Kellomäki

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Weight: 704 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-1571
• DOI: 10.1016/0002-1571(81)90043-1

✦ Synopsis

Oker-Blom, P. and Kellom~iki, S., 1981. Light regime and photosynthetic production in the canopy of a Scots pine stand during a prolonged period. Agric. Meteorol., 24: 185--199.

The light regime and the respective photosynthetic production in the canopy of a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stand is evaluated on the basis of models describing the penetration of radiation into the canopy, the distribution of the needle biomass in the canopy and the characteristics of the incoming solar radiation. Special attention is paid to the introduction of the normal weather pattern into the computations in order to obtain approximations about prevailing light conditions and respective values of the photosynthetic production during a whole growing period. Results are given for values of the shading needle biomaas of the canopy system.