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BtM, a Low-cost Open-source Datalogger to Estimate the Water Content of Nonvascular Cryptogams
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March 25, 2019
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1Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC-RJB), 2Grupo de Neurocomputación Biológica, Dpto. de Ingeniería Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior,Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 3Department of Biogeography and Global Change,Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), 4Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c),Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 5Department of Botany, Faculty of Science,University of South Bohemia
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We present a simple and cost-effective method to build an open-source datalogger that measures the conductance of nonvascular cryptogams together with the environmental temperature and humidity. We describe the hardware design of the datalogger and provide step-by-step assembly instructions, the list of required open-source logging software, the code to run the datalogger, and a calibration protocol.
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Leo, M., Lareo, A., Garcia-Saura, C., Hortal, J., Medina, N. G. BtM, a Low-cost Open-source Datalogger to Estimate the Water Content of Nonvascular Cryptogams. J. Vis. Exp. (145), e58700, doi:10.3791/58700 (2019).
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