Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Visual Adaptations in Crustaceans: Chromatic, Developmental, and Temporal Aspects
Book Title
Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
0387955275
Publication Date
2003
Editors
Shaun P. Collin, N. Justin Marshall
Keywords
Aquatic Ecology, Senses and Sensation
Description
Research on sensory processing or the way animals see, hear, smell, taste, feel and electrically and magnetically sense their environment has advanced a great deal over the last fifteen years. This book discusses the most important themes that have emerged from recent research and provides a summary of likely future directions.
The book starts with two sections on the detection of sensory signals over long and short ranges by aquatic animals, covering the topics of navigation, communication, and finding food and other localized sources. The next section, the co-evolution of signal and sense, deals with how animals decide whether the source is prey, predator or mate by utilizing receptors that have evolved to take full advantage of the acoustical properties of the signal. Organisms living in the deep-sea environment have also received a lot of recent attention, so the next section deals with visual adaptations to limited light environments where sunlight is replaced by bioluminescence and the visual system has undergone changes to optimize light capture and sensitivity. The last section on central co-ordination of sensory systems covers how signals are processed and filtered for use by the animal.
This book will be essential reading for all researchers and graduate students interested in sensory systems.
Publisher
Springer
City
New York
Disciplines
Marine Biology | Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
NSUWorks Citation
Marshall, N. Justin; Thomas W. Cronin; and Tamara M. Frank. (2003). Visual Adaptations in Crustaceans: Chromatic, Developmental, and Temporal Aspects. In Shaun P. Collin, N. Justin Marshall (Eds.), Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments .