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Over the last decade, polarised light and its use in nature has grown to take on a prominent role in visual neuroscience. This book covers many of the advances made since the 2004 Springer volume Polarised Light in Animal Vision edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. With each chapter written by experts in the relavant field, the book is intended for anyone interested in animal vision, environmental optics, polarized light and polarization sensitivity.

The book is divided into three sections. Part I examines polarization sensitivity...

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 some 225 illustrations, including more than 140 in color, spread throughout the text, this comprehensive and accessible book begins by discussing the basic properties of light and the optical environment. It then looks at how photoreceptors intercept light and convert it to usable...