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Name: Ruth S.
Status: student
Age: 17
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Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Question:
How does light intensity affect plant diversity and why?

Replies:
Dear Ruth,

Possibly helpful:

http://wric.ucdavis.edu/yst/manage/management4.html

2. Kobayashi, T., Saito, A. and Hori, Y. 1999. Species diversity of the understory dominated by dwarf-bamboo Pleioblastus chino Makino in a secondary forest with different numbers of years after the last mowing. Journal of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology 24: 201-207.

Key words: light intensity, management, secondary forest, Shannon function, species richness

http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/faculty/chazdon/chazdon.htm

http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Reynolds.html

Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.


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