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Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function
Edited By Martin Ste
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Description for Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function
hardcover. Synthesises the current status of camouflage research and understanding, presenting recent developments and demonstrating the important problems that remain. Editor(s): Stevens, Martin; Merilaita, Sami. Num Pages: 376 pages, 111 b/w illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: PSVD; PSVS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 23. .
In the last decade, research on the previously dormant field of camouflage has advanced rapidly, with numerous studies challenging traditional concepts, investigating previously untested theories and incorporating a greater appreciation of the visual and cognitive systems of the observer. Using studies of both real animals and artificial systems, this book synthesises the current state of play in camouflage research and understanding. It introduces the different types of camouflage and how they work, including background matching, disruptive coloration and obliterative shading. It also demonstrates the methodologies used to study them and discusses how camouflage relates to other subjects, particularly with regard ... Read more
In the last decade, research on the previously dormant field of camouflage has advanced rapidly, with numerous studies challenging traditional concepts, investigating previously untested theories and incorporating a greater appreciation of the visual and cognitive systems of the observer. Using studies of both real animals and artificial systems, this book synthesises the current state of play in camouflage research and understanding. It introduces the different types of camouflage and how they work, including background matching, disruptive coloration and obliterative shading. It also demonstrates the methodologies used to study them and discusses how camouflage relates to other subjects, particularly with regard ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521199117
SKU
V9780521199117
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-12
About Edited By Martin Ste
Martin Stevens is a BBSRC David Phillips Fellow based in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on sensory ecology and behaviour and has covered bird colour vision, computational models of colour and spatial vision, anti-predator markings, brood parasitism and cuckoos and sexual signals and vision in primates. Sami Merilaita is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow ... Read more
Reviews for Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function
'… the broad overview on the functions and mechanisms of camouflage in various communication systems makes reading this book very enjoyable.' H. Martin Schaefer, Basic and Applied Ecology