ThermStats: An R package for quantifying surface thermal heterogeneity in assessments of microclimates

Variation in temperature at a fine spatial scale creates critically important microclimates for many organisms. Quantifying thermal heterogeneity at this scale is challenging and, until recently, has been largely restricted to the use of dataloggers to record air temperature. Thermography is becoming an increasingly viable alternative. A single photo from a thermal imaging camera contains thousands of spatially explicit surface temperature...