3D Imaging Insights into Forests and Coral Reefs
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Multimodal Optical Microscopy Methods Reveal Polyp Tissue Morphology and Structure in Caribbean Reef Building Corals
Published on: September 5, 2014
Kim Calders1, Stuart Phinn2, Renata Ferrari3
1CAVElab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.
Abstract:
Forests and coral reefs are structurally complex ecosystems threatened by climate change. In situ 3D imaging measurements provide unprecedented, quantitative, and detailed structural information that allows testing of hypotheses relating form to function. This affords new insights into both individual organisms and their relationship to their surroundings and neighbours.
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