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David W. Lee
Researcher at Florida International University
Publications - 97
Citations - 4982
David W. Lee is an academic researcher from Florida International University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Understory & Iridescence. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 97 publications receiving 4658 citations. Previous affiliations of David W. Lee include Rutgers University & Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc..
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Why Leaves Turn Red in Autumn. The Role of Anthocyanins in Senescing Leaves of Red-Osier Dogwood
TL;DR: Evidence is provided for red-osier dogwood that anthocyanins form a pigment layer in the palisade mesophyll layer that decreases light capture by chloroplasts that reduces risk of photo-oxidative damage to leaf cells as they senesce, which otherwise may lower the efficiency of nutrient retrieval from senescing autumn leaves.
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Why Leaves Are Sometimes Red
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Pigment dynamics and autumn leaf senescence in a New England deciduous forest, eastern USA
TL;DR: The leaves of woody plants at Harvard Forest in Central Massachusetts, USA, changed color during senescence; 70% (62/89) of the woody species examined anatomically contained anthocyanins during Senescence, indicating no long-term protective activity.
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Epidermal cells functioning as lenses in leaves of tropical rain-forest shade plants.
TL;DR: A ray tracing model has been developed to investigate the possible focusing effects of the convexly curved epidermal cell walls which characterize a number of shade-adapted plants, and indicates that such focusing occurs, resulting in higher photosynthetic photon flux densities at certain locations within the leaf.
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Correlates of leaf optical properties in tropical forest sun and extreme-shade plants
TL;DR: The purpose of the present study was to determine which leaf structures best correlate with previously published optical properties of 13 extreme-shade adapted understory species and 12 sun-tolerating tropical forest species.