Biophysical Field Methods
Using the physics of heat and water to study the thermal ecology of animals and plants in the wild.
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What you will learn
Learn practical methods for reliably measuring temperature and humidity and their physical drivers in the field.
Learn about calibration and ways you can improvise meaningful calibrations of your instruments under field situations.
Learn about the concept of the operative temperature, and how this can be applied to ecologically meaningful measurements of the operative temperature.
Learn how ecologically meaningful measurements of operative temperature can be made in field situations.
Measure environmental temperature in a physically meaningful way.
Learn about humidity, what relative humidity is compared to absolute humidity, and the relationship of humiditiy to liquid water in the environment.
Learn about the concept of the water potential, the various types of water potential and how these influence the movements of liquid water in soils.
Learn the relationship between humidity water potential, and the physics underlying the phase relationships between vapor phase and liquid phase water.
Learn how the colligative properties of water affect the water vapor pressure, and how these influence both humidity and the water potential.
Learn how to apply these practical methods to specific ecological questions.
Understand what the water vapor pressure is compared to the partial pressure of water vapor and how these relate to the concept of humidity.
See these concepts demonstrated in model experiments under field conditions in Namibia.
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