Since TIR radiance depends on surface temperature and surface emissivity, observed anisotropy can be interpreted in terms of either anisotropy in emissivity or, for heterogeneous terrestrial targets, of differences in component temperatures.
Apart from skin specializations of amphibian species which are adapted to terrestrial habitats, structural differences between dorsal and ventral skin such as skin thickness or the abundance of glands might lead to different permeability characteristics as shown here for X. laevis.
Although our results show that marine snakes have increased Hct as compared with terrestrial species, this difference seems modest in comparison to what is found in marine endotherms [2], [3], despite the fact that marine snakes are extremely good divers [4], [18], [32].
Using phylogenetic comparative methods, I analyze various animal groups that inhabit an array of different habitats (such as marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments) for significant differences in body size between group members that inhabit those different habitats.
In any event, the substantive differences between terrestrial and fluid media interactions may partly account for the reason that Shneydor (1998) considers that many terrestrial cursorial predators adopt pure pursuit (hence the name 'hound-hare pursuit'), something that is backed up by observation (Schaller, 2009; Shubkina et al., 2010, 2012).
The stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data shows that animals subsisted on a selection of C3 terrestrial resources, with subtle differences in animal husbandry practices in domesticated animals, while strontium isotope analysis shows that <5% of analysed fauna is consistent with the local bioavailable strontium isotopic range.
The differences between terrestrial gravity and EGM2008 data within China have been compared by several studies.
To make above applications viable, there is a need to enable underwater communications among underwater devices, since there are important physical, technological, and economic differences between terrestrial and underwater sensor networks.
We present the results of a process to attempt to identify 100 questions that, if answered, would make a substantial difference to terrestrial and marine landscape restoration in Europe.
One salient difference to terrestrial environments is marine connectivity, potentially connecting all locations/habitats via genetic exchange of adults, larvae, spores or other propagules (Palumbi 1994).
Recently similar gene clusters were detected and characterized in terrestrial myxobacteria revealing several striking differences.
