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Responses to Different Quantum Flux Densities

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Physiological Plant Ecology I

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((920,volume 12 / A))

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Growth of autotrophic plants is directly and dramatically influenced by the intensity of light — the driving force of photosynthesis — which provides nearly all of the carbon and chemical energy needed for plant growth. Moreover, light intensity (quantum flux density) is perhaps the most conspicuous environmental variable with which plants must cope. Contrasting terrestrial habitats may differ by at least two orders of magnitude in the daily quantum flux available for photosynthesis. In any habitat the quantum flux density varies seasonally, diurnally, and spatially (such as within a canopy of a given plant stand).

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Botanik II der Universität, Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 64, 8700, Würzburg, Germany

    O. L. Lange

  2. Department of Biology Division of Environmental Biology of the Laboratory of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    P. S. Nobel

  3. Department of Environmental Biology Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Box 475, 2601, Canberra City, Australia

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  4. Institut für Botanik und Mikrobiologie der Technischen Universität, Arcisstraße 21, 8000, München 2, Germany

    H. Ziegler

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Björkman, O. (1981). Responses to Different Quantum Flux Densities. In: Lange, O.L., Nobel, P.S., Osmond, C.B., Ziegler, H. (eds) Physiological Plant Ecology I. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 12 / A. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68090-8_4

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