Fig. 8
Schematized determination of crown SLA for the LADmodel option. (a) \(\overline {Hc}_{bottom}\) and \(\overline {Hc}_{top}\) are calculated over the tree neighborhood (with n set to 3 here) and (b) crown SLA is then estimated through linear interpolation of SLAbottom and SLAtop according to crown height level between \(\overline {Hc}_{bottom}\) and \(\overline {Hc}_{top}\)