Night skies through animals' eyes-Quantifying night-time visual scenes and light pollution as viewed by animals.

ABSTRACT: A large proportion of animal species enjoy the benefits of being active at night, and have evolved the corresponding optical and neural adaptations to cope with the challenges of low light intensities. However, over the past century electric lighting has introduced direct and indirect light pollution into the full range of terrestrial habitats, changing nocturnal animals' visual worlds dramatically. To understand how these changes affect nocturnal behavior, we here propose an animal-centered analysis method based on environmental imaging. This approach incorporates the sensitivity and acuity limits of individual species, arriving at predictions of photon catch relative to noise thresholds, contrast distributions, and the orientation cues nocturnal species can extract from visual scenes. Th

SUBMITTER: Stockl AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582234 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature