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Photobiology

The Science of Light and Life

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Lars Olof Björn

    1. Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Nature of Light and Its Interaction with Matter

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 1-35

  3. Principles and Nomenclature for the Quantification of Light

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 37-44

  4. Generation and Control of Light

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 45-63

  5. The Measurement of Light

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 65-85

  6. Natural Light

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 87-95

  7. Action Spectroscopy in Biology

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 97-114

  8. Spectral Tuning in Biology

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 115-151

  9. The Photochemical Reactions in Biological Light Perception and Regulation

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 153-179

  10. The Design of the Compound Eye Depends on the Physics of Light

    • G. Adrian Horridge
    Pages 181-218

  11. Phototoxicity

    • Lars Olof Björn, Pirjo Huovinen
    Pages 219-238

  12. Ozone Depletion and Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation

    • Lars Olof Björn, Richard L. McKenzie
    Pages 239-263

  13. Vitamin D

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 265-280

  14. The Photobiology of Human Skin

    • Mary Norval
    Pages 281-298

  15. Photomorphogenesis and Photoperiodism in Plants

    • Jim L. Weller, Richard E. Kendrick
    Pages 299-334

  16. The Biological Clock and Its Resetting by Light

    • Anders Johnsson, Wolfgang Engelmann
    Pages 335-387

  17. Bioluminescence

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 389-410

  18. Hints for Teaching Experiments and Demonstrations

    • Lars Olof Björn
    Pages 411-439

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 441-451
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About this book

Photobiology - the science of light and life - begins with basic principles and the physics of light and continues with general photobiological research methods, such as generation of light, measurement of light, and action spectroscopy. In an interdisciplinary way, it then treats how organisms tune their pigments and structures to the wavelength components of light, and how light is registered by organisms. Then follow various examples of photobiological phenomena: the design of the compound eye in relation to the properties of light, phototoxicity, photobiology of the human skin and of vitamin D, photomorphogenesis, photoperiodism, the setting of the biological clock by light, and bioluminescence. A final chapter is devoted to teaching experiments and demonstrations in photobiology.
This book encompasses topics from a diverse array of traditional disciplines: physics, biochemistry, medicine, zoology, botany, microbiology, etc., and makes different aspects of photobiology accessible to experts in all these areas as well as to the novice.

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  • Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Lars Olof Björn

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