Robert W. Pearcy

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(86), Plant responses to elevated CO2(62), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms(45), Plant and animal studies(21), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(20)

Publications150 total

Physiological Effects
2019· 30 cited
Some like it hot: the physiological ecology of C4 plant evolution
Oecologia·2018· 104 cited
Simulating three-dimensional grapevine canopies and modelling their light interception characteristics
Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research·2013· 20 cited
Plasticity influencing the light compensation point offsets the specialization for light niches across shrub species in a tropical forest understorey
Journal of Ecology·2013· 52 citedOpen Access
Two decades of sunfleck research: looking back to move forward
Tree Physiology·2012· 60 cited
Sunflecks in trees and forests: from photosynthetic physiology to global change biology
Tree Physiology·2012· 308 cited
Light interception efficiency explained by two simple variables: a test using a diversity of small‐ to medium‐sized woody plants
New Phytologist·2011· 108 cited
The taxonomic distribution of C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto
American Journal of Botany·2007· 94 cited
Responses of Plants to Heterogeneous Light Environments
2007· 51 cited
Responses of Plants to Heterogeneous Light Environments
Books in soils, plants, and the environment·2007· 93 cited
Photosynthesis in Fluctuating Light Environments
Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks·2006· 94 cited
Crown architecture in sun and shade environments: assessing function and trade‐offs with a three‐dimensional simulation model
New Phytologist·2005· 294 citedOpen Access
A functional analysis of the crown architecture of tropical forest Psychotria species: do species vary in light capture efficiency and consequently in carbon gain and growth?
Oecologia·2004· 98 cited
Evaluating shrub architectural performance in sun and shade environments with the 3-D model Y-plant: Are there optimal strategies?
2004· 1 cited
Functional correlates of leaf demographic response to gap release in saplings of a shade-tolerant tree, Elateriospermum tapos
Oecologia·2003· 22 cited
Leaf display and photosynthesis of tree seedlings in a cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forest understorey
Oecologia·2003· 36 cited
Petiole twisting in the crowns of Psychotria limonensis: implications for light interception and daily carbon gain
Oecologia·2003· 38 cited
Convergence in light capture efficiencies among tropical forest understory plants with contrasting crown architectures: a case of morphological compensation
American Journal of Botany·2002· 204 citedOpen Access
Drought can be more critical in the shade than in the sun: a field study of carbon gain and photo‐inhibition in a Californian shrub during a dry El Niño year
Plant Cell & Environment·2002· 257 citedOpen Access
Plastic Phenotypic Response to Light of 16 Congeneric Shrubs from a Panamanian Rainforest
Ecology·2000· 77 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Fernando Valladares(7), James R. Ehleringer(5), Rowan F. Sage(4), Robin L. Chazdon(4), D. A. Sims(4), Harold A. Mooney(2), Philip W. Rundel(2), Weimin Yang(2), Howard W. Calkin(2), Miko U. F. Kirschbaum(2), John A. Gamon(2), Louis J. Gross(2), S. Joseph Wright‬(1), Eloisa Lasso(1), Kaoru Kitajima(1), Lawrence B. Flanagan(1), David W. Lee(1), Ned Fetcher(1), Danielle A. Way(1), Hiroyuki Muraoka(1)