The Ecology of Animal Senses

Matched Filters for Economical Sensing
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-25490-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 639 g

The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics “matching” the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection of vital sensory stimuli while sensory inputs not necessary for the survival of the animal tend to be filtered out, or sacrificed. The individual contributions discuss that the evolution of sensing systems resulted from the necessity to achieve the most efficient sensing of vital information at the lowest possible energetic cost. Matched filters are found in all senses including vision, hearing, olfaction, mechanoreception, electroreception and infrared sensing and different cases will be referred to in detail.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warrant, Eric

von der Emde, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierphysiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: sensory ecology and matched filters.- Energetic costs of neural tissue and its role in the evolution of sensory organs.- Visual matched filtering in arthropods.- Visual matched filtering in vertebrates.- Auditory matched filtering in invertebrates.- The ecology of olfaction.- The ecology of mechanoreception.- Magnetoreception.- Ecology of infrared sensing.- Matched filtering in two senses of one animal: partitioning of environmental sensing in African weakly electric fish.- The ecology of (active) whisking.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Gerhard von der Emde, University of Bonn, Germany
Prof. Eric Warrant, University of Lund, Sweden