Overview
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Gábor Horváth
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Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
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Dezső Varjú
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Lehrstuhl Kognitive Neurowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- 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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Polarized Light in Animal Vision
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- Gábor Horváth, Dezső Varjú
Pages 131-177
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Back Matter
Pages 385-447
About this book
The subject of this volume is two-fold. First, it gathers typical polarization patterns occurring in nature. Second, it surveys the polarization-sensitive ani mals, the physiological mechanisms and biological functions of polarization sensitivity as weIl as the polarization-guided behaviour in animals. The monograph is prepared for biologists, physicists and meteorologists, espe cially for experts of atmospheric optics and animal vision, who wish to under stand and reveal the message hidden in polarization patterns of the optical environment not directly accessible to the human visual system, but measur able by polarimetry and perceived by many animals. Our volume is an attempt to build a bridge between these two physical and biological flelds. In Part I we introduce the reader to the elements of imaging polarimetry. This technique can be efflciently used, e. g. in atmospheric optics, remote sens ing and biology. In Part 11 we deal with typical polarization patterns of the natural optical environment. Sunrise/sunset, clear skies, cloudy skies, moonshine and total solar eclipses all mean quite different illumination conditions, wh ich also affect the spatial distribution and strength of celestial polarization. We pre sent the polarization patterns of the sky and its unpolarized (neutral) points under sunlit, moonlit, clear, cloudy and eclipsed conditions as a function of solar elevation. The polarization pattern of a rainbow is also shown. That part of the spectrum is derived in which perception of skylight polarization is optimal under partly cloudy skies.
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