Polarization Vision and Environmental Polarized Light / edited by Gábor Horváth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horváth, Gábor, editor.

Series:

Springer Series in Vision Research, 2625-2643

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physiology.

Psychobiology.

Human behavior.

Neurosciences.

Ophthalmology.

Animal Physiology.

Behavioral Neuroscience.

Neuroscience.

Local Subjects:

Animal Physiology.

Behavioral Neuroscience.

Neuroscience.

Ophthalmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (842 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This new edition presents a state-of-the-art exploration of polarized light and polarization vision. Part I of the book examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa, including invertebrates and vertebrates, and it details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of environmental polarization with implications to animal and human polarization vision. This includes underwater polarization, polarization signals, sky-polarimetric Viking navigation and astronomical polarization. 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. The new edition features a number of novelties, including chapters on trilobites, springtails, bats, seals, imaging polarimetry, and astronomical polarization.

Contents:

Part I: Polarization Sensitivity and Vision

Polarization Sensitivity in the Vinegar Fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Polarization Sensitivity in Bees (Apoidea)

Polarization Vision and Orientation in Ball-rolling Dung Beetles

Polarization Sensitivity in Desert Locusts, Schistocerca gregaria

Polarization Sensitivity in Butterflies

Polarization Sensitivity in Tabanid Flies

Horsefly Polarotaxis

Circular Polarization Insensitivity in Scarab Beetles with Circularly Polarizing Exocuticle

Polarization Sensitivity and Polarotaxis in Springtails (Collembola)

Polarization Sensitivity, Polarotaxis and Polarization-elicited Optomotor Response in Yellow Fever Mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti)

Polarotaxis in Mayflies

Polarization Sensitivity and Polarotaxis in Odonates (Dragonflies and Damselflies)

Polarization Vision of Crustaceans

Polarization Sensitivity in Cephalopods - Cuttlefish as Model Animals

Polarization Sensitivity in Fishes

Polarization Sensitivity in Amphibians: An Update

Polarization Sensitivity in Reptiles: An Update

Polarization Vision in Birds

Polarization Sensitivity and Insensitivity in Bats

Polarization Insensitivity in Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina)

Human Polarization Sensitivity: An Update

Vision of Trilobites and Polarized Light

Part II: Environmental Polarization with Implications to Polarization Sensitivity and Vision

Polarization Signals in Crustaceans and Insects

Reflection-polarization Characteristics of Water Surfaces

Polarized Light Pollution and Ecological/Evolutionary Traps Induced by It for Polarotactic Aquatic Insects

Part III: Celestial Viking Navigation

Sky-polarimetric Viking Navigation: An Extended Update

Part IV: Astronomical Polarization

Polarization of Sunlit and Moonlit Skies, Eclipse Skies, Solar Coronas and Kordylewski Dust Clouds

Astronomical Polarization, Polarization-sensitive Cameras and Telescopes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-031-62863-2