Visual ecological impact of "Shiny black anthropogenic products" on aquatic insects: Oil reservoirs and plastic sheets as polarized traps for insects associated with water

Archives of Nature Conservation and Landscape Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-109

  Bernath B ^a   Szedenics, G ^a   Molnar G ^a   Kriska, G ^a   Horvath G ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Asphalt roads; Environmental impacts; Insect fauna; Insect trap; Plastic sheets; Polarimetry; Polarization vision; Polarotaxis; Reflection polarization; Visual deception; Waste oil lake; Water detection

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INSECT; OIL; PLASTIC; POLARIZATION; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 0034778468     PISSN: 00039306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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