Nocturnal light environments and species ecology: implications for nocturnal color vision in forests
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Nocturnal light environments and species ecology: implications for nocturnal color vision in forests.
Although variation in the color of light in terrestrial diurnal and twilight environments has been well documented, relatively little work has examined the color of light in nocturnal habitats. Understanding the range and sources of variation in nocturnal light environments has important implications for nocturnal vision, particularly following recent discoveries of nocturnal color vision. In t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.071415