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Overview

Robert W. Pearcy was affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their professional background was primarily linked to this institution, where their academic activities were presumably carried out.

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Robert W. Pearcy is noted as deceased. Therefore, all descriptions are presented in the past tense in accordance with standard biographical practice for deceased individuals.

Best Publications

  • Plastic Phenotypic Response to Light of 16 Congeneric Shrubs From a Panamanian Rainforest

    Fernando Valladares;S. Joseph Wright;Eloisa Lasso;Kaoru Kitajima

  • Plant Physiological Ecology-Field Methods and Instrumentation.

    S. B. Chapman;R. W. Pearcy;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  • SUNFLECKS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN PLANT CANOPIES

    Robert W. Pearcy

  • Climate change and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

    James R. Ehleringer;Rowan F. Sage;Lawrence B. Flanagan;Robert W. Pearcy

  • Comparative ecophysiology of C3 and C4 plants

    R. W. Pearcy;J. Ehleringer

  • Variation in Quantum Yield for CO2 Uptake among C3 and C4 Plants

    James Ehleringer;Robert W. Pearcy

  • The Importance of Sunflecks for Forest Understory Plants Photosynthetic machinery appears adapted to brief, unpredictable periods of radiation

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robert W. Pearcy

  • The Nitrogen Use Efficiency of C3 and C4 Plants II. Leaf Nitrogen Effects on the Gas Exchange Characteristics of Chenopodium album (L.) and Amaranthus retroflexus (L.)

    Rowan F Sage;Robert W. Pearcy

  • Interactions between water stress, sun-shade acclimation, heat tolerance and photoinhibition in the sclerophyll Heteromeles arbutifolia

    F. Valladares;R. W. Pearcy

  • Photosynthetic Responses of Tropical Forest Plants to Contrasting Light Environments

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robert W. Pearcy;David W. Lee;Ned Fetcher

  • Plant Physiological Ecology

    Robert W. Pearcy;James R. Ehleringer;Harold A. Mooney;Philip W. Rundel

  • The light environment and growth of C3 and C4 tree species in the understory of a Hawaiian forest.

    Robert W. Pearcy

  • Crown architecture in sun and shade environments: assessing function and trade‐offs with a three‐dimensional simulation model

    Robert W. Pearcy;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Fernando Valladares

  • Photosynthetic responses to light variation in rainforest species I. Induction under constant and fluctuating light conditions

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robert W. Pearcy

  • 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

    F. Valladares;R. W. Pearcy

  • Sunflecks in trees and forests: from photosynthetic physiology to global change biology

    Danielle A. Way;Danielle A. Way;Robert W. Pearcy

  • A three-dimensional crown architecture model for assessment of light capture and carbon gain by understory plants

    Robert W. Pearcy;Weimin Yang

  • Physiological Responses to Salinity in Selected Lines of Wheat

    Ralph W. Kingsbury;Emanuel Epstein;Robert W. Pearcy

  • Photosynthetic responses to dynamic light under field conditions in six tropical rainforest shrubs occuring along a light gradient

    F. Valladares;Mitchell T. Allen;Robert W. Pearcy

  • The Nitrogen Use Efficiency of C3 and C4 Plants : III. Leaf Nitrogen Effects on the Activity of Carboxylating Enzymes in Chenopodium album (L.) and Amaranthus retroflexus (L.)

    Rowan F. Sage;Robert W. Pearcy;Jeffrey R. Seemann

  • 5 – Photosynthetic Acclimation to Changing Light Environments: Scaling from the Leaf to the Whole Plant

    Robert W. Pearcy;Daniel A. Sims

  • Convergence in light capture efficiencies among tropical forest understory plants with contrasting crown architectures: a case of morphological compensation.

    Fernando Valladares;John B. Skillman;Robert W. Pearcy

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Valladares
Fernando Valladares Spanish National Research Council
Rowan F. Sage
Rowan F. Sage University of Toronto
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum Landcare Research
Jeffrey R. Seemann
Jeffrey R. Seemann University of Connecticut
Harold A. Mooney
Harold A. Mooney Stanford University
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
John A. Gamon
John A. Gamon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Danielle A. Way
Danielle A. Way University of Western Ontario
Thomas D. Sharkey
Thomas D. Sharkey Michigan State University

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