Anomalous celestial polarization caused by forest fire smoke: Why do some insects become visually disoriented under smoky skies?

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2717-2726

  Hegedüs, Ramón ^a   Åkesson, Susanne ^b   Horváth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; POLARIMETERS; SMOKE;

ANIMAL ORIENTATION; FOREST FIRE SMOKE; SKY POLARIZATION; SMOKY SKIES;

POLARIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CONFUSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FIRE; INSECT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SMOKE; TREE;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; CONFUSION; FIRES; INSECTS; REFRACTOMETRY; SMOKE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TREES;

EID: 34250782183     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002717     Document Type: Article

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