Assessing the light environment for Scots pine in the functional- structural tree model LIGNUM
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The turbid medium approaches (e.g. Sinoquet et. al., 2001) consider the transmission of light through a continuous medium. To model the spatial heterogeneousness of the foliage the canopy is divided into volume elements and the properties of the foliage contained in a volume element is described in an aggregated manner. The volume element can be for example a horizontal layer of foliage or a cubic cell also known as voxel.
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