Overview: Comprehensive treatment of this fascinating phenomenon, treating the physical, meterological and physiological aspects adequately.Illustrated with over hundred figures and additional 16 superb colour The subject of this volume is two-fold. First, it gathers typical polarization patterns occurring in nature. Second, it surveys the polarization-sensitive ani mals, the physiological mechanisms and biological functions of polarization sensitivity as weIl as the polarization-guided behaviour in animals. The monograph is prepared for biologists, physicists and meteorologists, espe cially
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