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- Comprehensive treatment of this fascinating phenomenon, treating the physical, meterological and physiological aspects adequately
- Illustrated with over hundred figures and additional 16 superb colour plates
- Includes vivid case studies of various species, from insects, birds or fishes
- The authors, both physicists, are well known experts, they received many awards and prizes for their biophysical work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Imaging Polarimetry
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Front Matter
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Polarization Patterns in Nature
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Polarized Light in Animal Vision
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Front Matter
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
Gábor Horváth
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Lehrstuhl Kognitive Neurowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Dezső Varjú
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polarized Light in Animal Vision
Book Subtitle: Polarization Patterns in Nature
Authors: Gábor Horváth, Dezső Varjú
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09387-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07334-2Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-09387-0Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 447
Topics: Animal Physiology, Zoology, Neurosciences, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Behavioral Sciences