The Ecology of VisionAn examination of the ways the ecology of animals is shaped by the sense of vision, written by an eminent marine zoologist. |
Contents
Mechanisms of vision 35 336 | 35 |
Intensitylimiting environments | 81 |
Rhodopsins and porphyropsins | 87 |
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600 Wavelength nm absorbed Ahlbert Amax angle animals bioluminescence birds Bowmaker bright camouflage chromophore colour vision coloured oil droplets cone types conspicuous contrast cornea curves dark adaptation Dartnall daylight depth detect direction display diurnal downwelling downwelling light feeding flowers freshwater ganglion cell green increase insects invertebrates irradiance Jerlov Kirschfeld lens light intensity log units longer wavelengths Lythgoe mammals maximum measurements mesopelagic fishes molecule Muntz Munz and McFarland natural night nocturnal number of photons object opsin optical particular pattern pearleye photographed photons photophores pigeon Plate porphyropsin predators prey pupil aperture Rayleigh scattering receptor red and orange reduced reflection refractive relative retina rhabdomes rhodopsin rods scattered light scotopic vision Snell's window spacelight spatial frequency species spectral absorption spectral distribution spectral radiance spectral sensitivity spectrum tawny owl teleost transparent turbid underwater vertebrates vertical visible visual cells visual pigments visual scene water surface wavelengths yellow filters