The Effect of Windspeed on the Growth of Grasses
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology
- Vol. 16 (2) , 507-514
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2402525
Abstract
Plants of Festuca arundinacea and Lolium perenne were exposed to constant windspeeds of 1.1, 4.0, 7.4, or 10.0 m/s, in a controlled-environment wind-tunnel, for periods of 14 days. Increasing windspeed reduced the rate of leaf extension, the relative growth rate and the leaf area ratio, but increased the net assimilation rate in both species. There was no effect of windspeed on the rate of appearance of leaves or on the leaf water potential.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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