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Biology · 术语表

什么是 Leaf area index?

Definition 3.7 University Biology — Year 1 · 第 3 章 — Functional Organization of a Flowering Plant

The leaf area index LL of a plant cover is the total one-sided leaf area per unit area of ground. A meadow in June has L≈3L \approx 3, a deciduous forest 4 to 6 4\text{ to }6\,, a tropical rain forest up to 8 8\,: several layers of leaf are stacked above every square metre of soil.

Light under a canopy against leaf area index, for three leaf orientations. Beyond L 6 an extra layer of leaves gains almost nothing, which is why canopies stop there.
Light under a canopy against leaf area index, for three leaf orientations. Beyond L≈6L \approx 6 an extra layer of leaves gains almost nothing, which is why canopies stop there.

示例

Example 3.10 (The oak’s two surfaces)

An oak whose crown shades 100 m2100\,\mathrm{m}^{2} at L=5L = 5 carries 500 m2500\,\mathrm{m}^{2} of leaf. Its fine roots, at a few kilometres per cubic metre through 100 m3100\,\mathrm{m}^{3} of soil, offer several hundred square metres, and their root hairs a thousand more: the absorbing surface underground is several times the photosynthetic surface above, over the same square metres of ground.

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