Cronin / Johnsen / Marshall Visual Ecology

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5302-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronin, Thomas W.

Johnsen, Sönke

Marshall, Justin

Warrant, Eric J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xix

1 Introduction 1

2 Light and the Optical Environment 10

3 Visual Pigments and Photoreceptors 37

4 The Optical Building Blocks of Eyes 66

5 The Eye Designs of the Animal Kingdom 91

6 Spatial Vision 116

7 Color Vision 146

8 Polarization Vision 178

9 Vision in Attenuating Media 206

10 Motion Vision and Eye Movements 232

11 Vision in Dim Light 262

12 Visual Orientation and Navigation 289

13 Signals and Camoufl age 313

Glossary 345

References 355

General Index 383

Index of Names 401

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas W. Cronin is professor of biological sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Sönke Johnsen is professor of biology at Duke University. Justin Marshall is professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Queensland in Australia. Eric J. Warrant is professor of zoology at Lund University in Sweden.