JOURNAL OF NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY ›› 1993, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (01): 9-15.doi: 10.3969/j.jssn.1000-2006.1993.01.002

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TURBULENCE AND THICKNESS OF ECOBOUNDARY LAYER.

Wang Xingli Xiong Wenyu(Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences)   

  1. Nanjing Forestry University
  • Online:1993-03-18 Published:1993-02-18

Abstract: The structure of ecoboumdary layer and its function in the physiological activities of plants are further revealed through the analysis of the time-space variations of turbulent fluxes and their vertical gradients. In a dense tea plantation, the source and sink of material and energy are located in a part where branchlets and leaves are so crowded together as to be recognized as an entity or ecobody with specific functions when an investigation is made in a larger scale. Thickness of an ecoboundary layer is a distance between a plant and its physical environments within which they interact directly and effectively, Whereas beyond this limit no more direct interaction exists. For a tea plantation, thethickness of ecoboundary layer (D) can be approximately evaluated by the equation D=(BA) , Where HC is canopy height, (BA) is function of physiologicel activities of plants. In the case of =1, = 1, D will vary between 0. 08HC-0.16HC which is a valuable reference for investigating the environment of an ecosystem.