Responses of tropical forest tree seedlings to irradiance and the derivation of a light response index

1  Seedlings of 16 West African timber tree species were grown in six neutral shadehouses with irradiances 2%, 6%, 10%, 28%, 44% and 66% of unshaded values.

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