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Functional Ecology 2004 18, 148 –153
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Integrated plant temperature measurement using heat-sensitive paint and colour image analysis W. K. SMITH,† C. R. BRODERSEN, T. E. HANCOCK and D. M. JOHNSON Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109, USA
Summary 1. Despite the fundamental importance of temperature to a variety of physiological processes, such as photosynthesis and transpiration in plants, accurately quantifying and integrating differences in surface temperatures is often difficult, if not impossible. 2. An inexpensive, user-friendly technique is now available whereby plants and animals can be air-brushed with a non-toxic, heat-sensitive paint that will generate six or more distinguishable colours across a temperature range of ≈5 °C and a resolution of
