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Aiming at clues of forest decline we studied prompt and delayed luminescence of spruce needles from the picosecond to the second time range using various custom made kinetic equipments. Both kinetics in the picosecond and in the seconds time range could be fitted by three exponentially decaying components yielding three amplitudes and three reaction constants each. Basically, all components showed a typical annual time course, independent of the degree of damage or air pollution. In addition, it turned out that on one hand the “slow” component of picosecond decay kinetics (decay time τ = 2.0–3.5 ns) reflects some damage of the photosynthetic apparatus, which is mainly located in photosystem II. Similarly, in long term delayed luminescence in the seconds time range the “fast” component (decay time τ = 0.13 s) obviously carries some information on the spruces’ vitality. In general, healthy or declined spruces showed the highest photosynthetic efficiencies but also the most pronounced stress symptoms during the summer period — probalby due to high irradiance, drought and increased ozone concentrations.
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Schneckenburger, H., Schmidt, W. (1994). Time-Resolved Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Monitoring of Forest Decline. In: Werner, C., Waidelich, W. (eds) Laser in der Umweltmeßtechnik / Laser in Remote Sensing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08252-2_14
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