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Visual Ecology /
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...
| Autores principales: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.