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..
Preface 24 // 1 Introduction 27 // 2 Light and the Optical Environment 38 // 3 Visual Pigments and Photoreceptors 69 // 4 The Optical Building Blocks of Eyes 104 // 5 The Eye Designs of the Animal Kingdom 135 // 6 Spatial Vision 168 // 7 Color Vision 204 // 8 Polarization Vision 243 // 9 Vision in Attenuating Media 276 // 10 Motion Vision and Eye Movements 307 // 11 Vision in Dim Light 344 // 12 Visual Orientation and Navigation 377 // 13 Signals and Camouflage 406 // Glossary 444 // References 458 // General Index 484 // Index of Names 502