TY - T1 - Light interception in experimental forests affected by tree diversity and structural complexity of dominant canopy SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308557 T3 - A1 - Rissanen, Kaisa; Martin-Guay, Marc-Olivier; Riopel-Bouvier, Anne-Sophie; Paquette, Alain A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - Biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning in forests by, for example, enhancing growth and altering the forest structure towards greater complexity with cascading effects on other processes and trophic levels. Complexity in forest canopy could enhance light interception and form a link between diversity and productivity in polyculture forests, but the effect of canopy structure on light interception is rarely directly measured. We modelled the canopy surface structure of a tree diversity experi... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 4112 Forestry; BIODIVERSITY; Biodiversity; CARBON STORAGE; CROWN PLASTICITY; Canopy structure; Ecosystem functioning; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; Functional diversity; HETEROGENEITY; Light interception; PRODUCTIVITY; Photogrammetry; STANDS; UAV; UNDERSTORY LIGHT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; VEGETATION N1 - PP - ER -