Deciduous trees shed their leaves in fall to get ready for winter ... and those whose leaves do not offer much value in ...

The UK has some beautiful deciduous forests ... before the forest floor becomes shaded when the leaves will have grown on the trees. The more open the canopy, the more diverse the herb layer ...

Furthermore, many current remote sensing simulations, which are vital to our understanding of lidar data, assume leaves with Lambertian reflectance, opaque leaves, or apply purely specular or ...