In ecology, a light gap is a break in forest canopy or similar barrier that allows young plants to grow where they would be otherwise inhibited by the lack of light reaching the seedbed. Light gaps form predominantly when a tree falls, and thus produces an opening in the forest canopy. Light gaps are important for maintaining diversity in species-rich ecosystems.[1]
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In ecology, a lightgap is a break in forest canopy or similar barrier that allows young plants to grow where they would be otherwise inhibited by the...
solid-state physics and solid-state chemistry, a band gap, also called a bandgap or energy gap, is an energy range in a solid where no electronic states...
semiconductor physics, the band gap of a semiconductor can be of two basic types, a direct band gap or an indirect band gap. The minimal-energy state in...
a lightning discharge), light, and heat. Spark gaps were used historically in early electrical equipment, such as spark gap radio transmitters, electrostatic...
light-gap herbivores there. Their role in the forest ecosystem is considered important by many scientists, who stress the significance of lightgaps in...
Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light spans the visible spectrum...
involved six literal 24-hour days (light being "day" and dark "night" as God specified), but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations...
A generation gap or generational gap is a difference of opinions and outlooks between one generation and another. These differences may relate to beliefs...
of light that is now able to penetrate depends on how big the gap actually is. A treefall gap that is only 5 meters in diameter will allow less light to...
Yeezy Gap (stylized as YEEZY GAP or YZY GAP) was a fashion collaboration between Kanye West's Yeezy and the American clothing company Gap announced in...
of causes, gaps, therefore, have a wide range of sizes, including small and large gaps. Regardless of size, gaps allow an increase in light as well as...
The GIUK gap (sometimes written G-I-UK) is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point. Its name is an acronym for Greenland...
"Mind the gap" (listen) or sometimes "watch the gap" is an audible or visual warning phrase issued to rail passengers to take caution while crossing the...
as fluorescent lamps, and LED lamps, which produce light by a flow of electrons across a band gap in a semiconductor. The energy efficiency of electric...
a gap between metals forces light to propagate partially inside the metallic regions, causing the gap plasmon to slow down. The velocity of the gap-plasmon...
series of tiny ringlets can be traced to Pierre-Simon Laplace, although true gaps are few – it is more correct to think of the rings as an annular disk with...
The Kuzyk quantum gap is a discrepancy between the maximum value of the nonlinear-optical susceptibility allowed by quantum mechanics and the highest...
barrier. This could result in a virtual particle crossing a large gap faster than light. However, no information can be sent using this effect. So-called...
The GDP gap or the output gap is the difference between actual GDP or actual output and potential GDP, in an attempt to identify the current economic...
to ternary and quaternary compositions, with adjustable band gap width, allowing light emission at chosen wavelengths, which makes possible matching...