Evaluation of a portable chlorophyll meter to estimate chlorophyll concentrations in leaves of tropical wood species from Amazonian forest

A portable chlorophyll meter can be an important tool to estimating chlorophyll contents in leaves of tree species under field conditions. The method is quick and non-destructive compared to the classic chemical methods of pigment extraction. The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of a...

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Main Authors: José Francisco de Carvalho Gonçalves, Ulysses Moreira dos Santos Junior, Emerson Alves da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Botânica
Series:Hoehnea
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2236-89062008000200002&lng=en&tlng=en