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List of works by Robert W Pearcy

A functional analysis of the crown architecture of tropical forest Psychotria species: do species vary in light capture efficiency and consequently in carbon gain and growth?

scientific article published on 7 February 2004

A three-dimensional crown architecture model for assessment of light capture and carbon gain by understory plants

scientific article published on October 1996

Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance (Compositae- Madiinae): Ecological, Morphological, and Physiological Diversity

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Carbon dioxide exchange characteristics of C4 Hawaiian Euphorbia species native to diverse habitats

scientific article published on December 1982

Carbon dioxide exchange of C3 and C4 tree species in the understory of a Hawaiian forest

scientific article published in April 1983

Convergence in light capture efficiencies among tropical forest understory plants with contrasting crown architectures: a case of morphological compensation.

scientific article published on August 2002

Crown architecture in sun and shade environments: assessing function and trade-offs with a three-dimensional simulation model.

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Daily carbon gain by Adenocaulon bicolor (Asteraceae), a redwood forest understory herb, in relation to its light environment

scientific article published in September 1989

Dynamic stomatal behavior and its role in carbon gain during lightflecks of a gap phase and an understory Piper species acclimated to high and low light

scientific article published on November 1992

Effect of leaf flutter on the light environment of poplars

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Effects of salinity on growth and photosynthesis of three California tidal marsh species

scientific article published in April 1984

Environmental characteristics, field water relations, and photosynthetic responses of C4 Hawaiian Euphorbia species from contrasting habitats

scientific article published in January 1980

Functional correlates of leaf demographic response to gap release in saplings of a shade-tolerant tree, Elateriospermum tapos

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Gas exchange characteristics and temperature relations of two desert annuals: A comparison of a winter-active and a summer-active species

scientific article published on November 1982

Influence of sunflecks on the δ 13 C of Adenocaulon bicolor plants occurring in contrasting forest understory microsites

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Leaf display and photosynthesis of tree seedlings in a cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forest understorey

scientific article published on 26 March 2003

PLASTIC PHENOTYPIC RESPONSE TO LIGHT OF 16 CONGENERIC SHRUBS FROM A PANAMANIAN RAINFOREST

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Photoinhibition and drought in Mediterranean woody saplings: scaling effects and interactions in sun and shade phenotypes.

scientific article published on 29 November 2004

Photosynthesis and respiration in Alocasia macrorrhiza following transfers to high and low light

scientific article published in May 1991

Photosynthetic Responses of Tropical Forest Plants to Contrasting Light Environments

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Photosynthetic Utilization of Lightflecks by Tropical Forest Plants

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Photosynthetic Utilization of Sunflecks: A Temporally Patchy Resource on a Time Scale of Seconds to Minutes

Photosynthetic characteristics of a tropical forest understory herb, Alocasia macrorrhiza, and a related crop species, Colocasia esculenta grown in contrasting light environments

scientific article published on April 1989

Photosynthetic gas exchange response of poplars to steady-state and dynamic light environments

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Photosynthetic responses of C3 and C4 species from cool shaded habitats in Hawaii

scientific article published in January 1980

Photosynthetic responses to dynamic light under field conditions in six tropical rainforest shrubs occuring along a light gradient.

scientific article published on August 1997

Photosynthetic responses to light variation in rainforest species : I. Induction under constant and fluctuating light conditions.

scientific article published in July 1986

Photosynthetic responses to light variation in rainforest species : II. Carbon gain and photosynthetic efficiency during lightflecks

scientific article published in July 1986

Plastic Phenotypic Response to Light of 16 Congeneric Shrubs from a Panamanian Rainforest

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Plasticity influencing the light compensation point offsets the specialization for light niches across shrub species in a tropical forest understorey

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Relationships between growth, photosynthesis and competitive interactions for a C3 and C4 plant

scientific article published on 01 March 1981

Some like it hot: the physiological ecology of C4 plant evolution

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Steady-state and dynamic photosynthetic response of Adenocaulon bicolor (Asteraceae) in its redwood forest habitat.

scientific article published in September 1989

Stomatal dynamics and its importance to carbon gain in two rainforest Piper species : I. VPD effects on the transient stomatal response to lightflecks

scientific article published on June 1993

Stomatal dynamics and its importance to carbon gain in two rainforest Piper species : II. Stomatal versus biochemical limitations during photosynthetic induction

scientific article published on June 1993

Sunflecks in trees and forests: from photosynthetic physiology to global change biology.

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Temperature responses of growth and photosynthetic CO2 exchange rates in coastal and desert races of Atriplex lentiformis

scientific article published on September 1976

The Importance of Sunflecks for Forest Understory Plants

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The functional ecology of shoot architecture in sun and shade plants of Heteromeles arbutifolia M. Roem., a Californian chaparral shrub.

scientific article published in March 1998

The light environment and growth of C3 and C4 tree species in the understory of a Hawaiian forest.

scientific article published in April 1983

The role of crown architecture for light harvesting and carbon gain in extreme light environments assessed with a structurally realistic 3-D model

scientific article published on 30 June 2000

The taxonomic distribution of C4 photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto

scientific article published in December 2007

Two decades of sunfleck research: looking back to move forward

scientific article published on 01 September 2012