This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The rectangular hyperbola is shown to be a poor description of the response of photosynthesis to irradiance for leaves of a winter wheat crop.

Analytical expressions for the contributions of sun and shade leaves to instantaneous canopy photosynthesis are derived. The analysis is based on four assumptions. First, that the canopy is closed in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Systematic errors caused by some methods of estimating the parameters of a rectangular hyperbola are discussed using a second-order Taylor ...