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Jardin botanique de Montréal 
Centre for Forest Research

Glossary - Boundary layer

Interface area between the air and the leaf, in which a thin layer of stagnant air sticks to the leaf, more or less saturated with water.

The leaf releasing water and carbon dioxide, the amounts of humidity and carbon dioxide in the boundary limit will differ from those that are present in ambient air.


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