How to avoid errors when quantifying thermal environments

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 96-107

  Bakken, George S ^a   Angilletta, Michael J ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Microclimate; Operative temperature; Operative temperature thermometer; Thermal heterogeneity; Thermal map; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84892888464     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12149     Document Type: Note

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