<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Esteso-Martínez, Jordán</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peguero-Pina, José Javier</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valladares, Fernando</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morales, Fermín</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gil-Pelegrín, Eustaquio</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Self-shading in cork oak seedlings: Functional implications in heterogeneous light environments</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acta Oecologica</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Canopy structure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Light stress</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus suber</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Self-shading</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1146609X10000561</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">36</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">423 - 430</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The high self-shading found in Quercus suber seedlings has been interpreted as a feature common for plants growing in high light environments. But many studies reveal that Q. suber has high survival rates under low-light conditions, so a high degree of self-shading could be the consequence of a foliage composed of many small leaves, with no drawbacks for coping with low light. A characterization of the light environment in a Q. suber stand together with a study of photosynthetic parameters of full sunlightexposed (FSLE) and self-shaded (SS) leaves were carried out to tackle this apparent contradiction. Although the number of sunﬂecks longer than 120 min during the 3 months of measurements was low, the occurrence of at least one sunﬂeck longer than 120 min per day in the understory of the forest studied was very common. Sunﬂecks shorter than 30 min promoted an increase in net photosynthesis (A) in FSLE leaves, but not in SS leaves. However, sunﬂecks longer than 60 min led to a very strong decrease in A and in actual photosystem II efﬁciency (FPSII ) in FSLE leaves, when compared to sunﬂecks shorter than 30 min. In SS leaves, changes were, again, negligible. The multi-layered foliage of Q. suber seedlings allowed i) FSLE leaves to obtain the maximum photosynthetic yield for short sunﬂecks, and ii) SS leaves to increase their contribution to the photosynthesis of the whole plant for long sunﬂecks, thus, optimizing the use of light by FSLE and SS leaves during short and long sunﬂecks respectively. Therefore, shoot architecture of Q. suber seedlings involving high levels of self-shading allows to adequately cope with the low but highly heterogeneous light conditions of the understory, particularly when sunﬂecks of contrasting durations take place as it is frequently the case for evergreen Mediterranean forests</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Elsevier Masson SAS</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sala, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sabate, S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gracia, Carlos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tenhunen, J D</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Canopy structure within a Quercus ilex forested watershed: variations due to location, phenological development, and water availability</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trees-Structure and Function</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Canopy structure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">leaf area index</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean sclerophylls</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus ilex</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">water deficit</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1994</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">254-261</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spatial and temporal changes in canopy structure were studied in 1988 and 1989 in a Mediterranean Q u e r c u s ilex forest in north-eastern Spain. Due to differences in precipitation patterns the 1989 growing season was drier than the 1988 growing season. Sampling was conducted in parallel at two sites which represent endpoints along a slope gradient within a watershed (ridge top at 975 m, and valley bottom at 700 m). At both sites, similar inter-annual changes in canopy structure were observed in response to differences in water availability. Samples harvested in the upper 50 cm of the canopy during 1989 exhibited a de- crease in both average leaf size and the ratio of young to old leaf and stem biomass relative to samples obtained in 1988. At the whole canopy level, a decrease in leaf pro- duction efficiency and an increase in the stem to leaf bio- mass ratio was observed in 1989. Temporal changes in canopy leaf area index (LAI) were not statistically sig- nificant. Average LAI values of Q. ilex at the two sites were not significantly different despite differences in tree stature and density (4.6 m 2 m -2 at the ridge top, and 5.3 m 2 m -2 at the valley bottom). Vertical distribution of leaves and stems within the canopy was very similar at the two locations, with more than 60% of the total LAI in the uppermost metre of the canopy. The possible significance of such an LAI distribution on the canopy carbon budget is discussed.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>