Use of remote laser sensing equipment to measure surface temperature and to predict deep body temperatures of small lizards in the field

Herpetological Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-312

  Bucklin, Stacey E ^a   Ferguson, Gary W ^a   Gehrmann, William H ^a   Pinder, John E ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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