Canopy openness and lai estimates in two seasonally deciduous forests on limestone outcrops in central Brazil using hemispherical photographs Estimativas de abertura do dossel e índice de área foliar em duas florestas estacionais deciduais sobre afloramentos calcários no Brasil central usando fotografias hemisféricas

Patches of seasonally dry tropical forests occur on limestone outcrops in Central Brazil surrounded by the dominant savanna vegetation. They contain valuable timber species but are threatened by farming and mining activities. The objective of this study was to describe canopy opening and light relat...

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Main Authors: André Rosalvo Terra Nascimento, Jeanine Maria Felfili Fagg, Christopher William Fagg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade de Investigações Florestais 2007-02-01
Series:Revista Árvore
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-67622007000100019