Visual Ecology.
Title:
Visual Ecology.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (428 pages)
ISBN:
9781400853021
Abstract:
Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. Visual Ecology provides the first up-to-date synthesis of the field to appear in more than three decades. Featuring some 225 illustrations, including more than 140 in color, spread throughout the text, this comprehensive and accessible book begins by discussing the basic properties of light and the optical environment. It then looks at how photoreceptors intercept light and convert it to usable biologic.
Local Note:
JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction -- Light and the optical environment -- Visual pigments and photoreceptors -- The optical building blocks of eyes -- The eye designs of the animal kingdom -- Spatial vision -- Color vision -- Polarization vision -- Vision in attenuating media -- Motion vision and eye movements -- Vision in dim light -- Visual orientation and navigation -- Signals and camouflage.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.