Linking light attenuation, sunflecks, and canopy architecture in mesic shrub thickets

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Plant Ecology

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11258-009-9637-9
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