Overview
- Extensively revised and updated new edition
- Richly illustrated with color figures
- With videos and additional figures as electronic supplementary material
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Vision Research (SSVR, volume 2)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Polarization Vision in Animals and Humans
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Polarized Light in Nature with Implications to Animal Polarization Vision
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About this book
This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume “Polarized Light in Animal Vision” edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized light in nature and explores how the physics of light must be taken into account when understanding how polarized light is detected by the visual system. This includes underwater polarization due to scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies; polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization transmitted through Snell’s window and both linearly and circularly polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals. This Part also examines polarized “light pollution” induced by anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces, glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the navigational abilities of Viking seafarers using the sky polarization compass. The deterrent qualities of ungulate pelage to polarization-sensitive biting insects is also examined in this section.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polarized Light and Polarization Vision in Animal Sciences
Editors: Gábor Horváth
Series Title: Springer Series in Vision Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54718-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54717-1Published: 11 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51747-5Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54718-8Published: 30 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2625-2635
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2643
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 649
Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations, 313 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Physiology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology