Ecology of Sensing [Paperback]

Sense organs serve as a kind of biological interface between the environment and the organism. Therefore, the relationship between sensory systems and ecology is very close and its knowledge of fundamental importance for an understanding of animal behavior. The sixteen chapters of this book exemplify the diversity of the constraints and opportunities associated with the sensation of stimuli representing different forms of energy. The book stresses the events taking place in the sensory periphery where the animal is exposed to and gets in touch with its natural habitat and acquires the information needed to organize its interaction with its environment.
Ecology of Sensing brings together the leading experts in the field.Sense organs serve as a kind of biological interface between the environment and the organism. Therefore, the relationship between sensory systems and ecology is very close and its knowledge of fundamental importance for an understanding of animal behavior. The sixteen chapters of this book exemplify the diversity of the constraints and opportunities associated with the sensation of stimuli representing different forms of energy. The book stresses the events taking place in the sensory periphery where the animal is exposed to and gets in touch with its natural habitat and acquires the information needed to organize its interaction with its environment.
Ecology of Sensing brings together the leading experts in the field.General Aspects. Physical Constraints in Sensory Ecology. Why Sensory Ecology Needs to Become More Evolutionary - Insect Color Vision as a Case in Point.- Sound and Hearing. Impedance Matching in Sound Production and Hearing: a Comparative Study. Ecological Constraints for Sound Communication: from Grasshoppers to Elephants.- The Ecology of Avian Acoustical Signals.- Medium Flow and Vibrations. The Motion-Sensing Hairs of Arthropods: Using Physics ot Understand Sensory Ecology lóÝ