Leaf temperatures have a major influence on plant growth and development, e.g. photosynthesis rates, and thermal tolerance limits.

However, our ability to measure such important characteristics has until recently been limited. Now with thermal imagery we can measure leaf temperatures directly!

Learn to analyze thermal images collected on dwarf-shrub canopies across Norway.

• compare thermal profiles of different dwarf-shrub species and/or
• compare how different leaf temperatures are from the more traditionally used microclimate data collected from plant-level loggers, and weather stations.

We have an existing database from across Norwegian heathland ecosystems, but some opportunities may still exist for data collection from heathland systems around Bergen.

Have a look at the DURIN page and contact Sonya Geange at Sonya.Geange@uib.no for more info!