Canopy structure, nitrogen distribution
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Schieving, F. ;Werger, M. J. A. ;Hirose, T.
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Article
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1992
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Using a combination of mathematical modeling and field studies we showed that in dense stands of growing herbaceous plants the vertical pattern of leaf nitrogen distribution resembles the pattern of mean light attenuation in the stand and hence tends to maximize total daily photosynthetic carbon gai