Infrared thermography in marine ecology: methods, previous applications and future challenges
@article{Lathlean2014InfraredTI, title={Infrared thermography in marine ecology: methods, previous applications and future challenges}, author={Justin Adam Lathlean and Laurent Seuront}, journal={Marine Ecology Progress Series}, year={2014}, volume={514}, pages={263-277} }
Infrared thermography (IRT) is being increasingly utilised by animal physiologists and ecologists to investigate the role of thermal stress and small-scale thermal variability on the distribution and abundance of species. Due to the inability of infrared cameras to work under - water, ecological studies that use IRT have largely been undertaken on terrestrial systems, while fundamentally limited to surfacing mammals in aquatic ecosystems. In recent years, however, IRT has been used to…
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