Stomatal control and leaf thermal and hydraulic capacitances under rapid environmental fluctuations.

Leaves within a canopy may experience rapid and extreme fluctuations in ambient conditions. A shaded leaf, for example, may become exposed to an order of magnitude increase in solar radiation within a few seconds, due to sunflecks or canopy motions. Considering typical time scales for stomatal adjus...

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Main Authors: Stanislaus J Schymanski, Dani Or, Maciej Zwieniecki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23359800/?tool=EBI