The Ecology of Animal Senses -

The Ecology of Animal Senses

Matched Filters for Economical Sensing
Buch | Softcover
X, 269 Seiten
2019 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-79800-4 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt
The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics "matching" the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection of vital sensory stimuli while sensory inputs not necessary for the survival of the animal tend to be filtered out, or sacrificed. The individual contributions discuss that the evolution of sensing systems resulted from the necessity to achieve the most efficient sensing of vital information at the lowest possible energetic cost. Matched filters are found in all senses including vision, hearing, olfaction, mechanoreception, electroreception and infrared sensing and different cases will be referred to in detail.

Prof. Gerhard von der Emde, University of Bonn, Germany Prof. Eric Warrant, University of Lund, Sweden

Introduction: sensory ecology and matched filters.- Energetic costs of neural tissue and its role in the evolution of sensory organs.- Visual matched filtering in arthropods.- Visual matched filtering in vertebrates.- Auditory matched filtering in invertebrates.- The ecology of olfaction.- The ecology of mechanoreception.- Magnetoreception.- Ecology of infrared sensing.- Matched filtering in two senses of one animal: partitioning of environmental sensing in African weakly electric fish.- The ecology of (active) whisking.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo X, 269 p. 95 illus., 46 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 530 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Schlagworte ecophysiology • infrared sensing • Magnetoreception • mechanoreception • Olfaction • visual orientation
ISBN-10 3-319-79800-6 / 3319798006
ISBN-13 978-3-319-79800-4 / 9783319798004
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