Fig 1.
A) Microclimate models scale air and soil temperatures and wind speeds from sensor to organismal heights. B) Biophysical models balance heat exchanges between organisms and their environment to estimate body temperatures [19]. A thermal image depicts how grasshopper body temperatures vary substantially from vegetation, air, and ground temperatures due to heat exchange.
Fig 2.
An examplar aim of translating from environmental and phenotypic data to organismal conditions in a given environment (grey boxes) can be achieved in TrenchR via several categories of functions (white boxes).
We list example functions for each category used in the example application below.
Fig 3.
Body temperatures (Te) are predicted to drastically exceed air temperature when lizards are exposed to high levels of solar radiation.
Air temperatures (Ta, °C) at lizard height (0.02 m) are predicted to exceed air temperatures at 2 m and to be similar to surface temperatures (Ts). We estimate body temperatures using two general energy budgets [solid: Tb_Gates(); dotted: Tb_CampbellNorman()] and a lizard specific biophysical model [dashed: Tb_lizard()] that differ in how they model heat exchanges.